I don't listen to much modern composition.

The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive.

In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.

Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration.

If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.

As you get older you realize how important your emotional response is to any kind of music.

We are kind of one step removed, not really in the center of things.

It's a full on job just looking for human social responsibility.

To be able to play and get loads of people together is really cool.

I think the biggest problem we have is taking too long over things. Not in terms of getting it right, but sometimes we do things quickly that are really good.

In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures.

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

I was feeling fear. Not a wild, mortal fear, but something cold like a hook in my side.

Political parties serve to keep each other in check one keenly watching the other.

I don't find it a struggle to maintain a healthy diet now as my palate has changed. I don't crave rich food.

The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fails to do so is a government unworthy to lead.

I think that just as we're in the nuclear era we're also in an era of non-violence. It's undefeatable.

God freely forgives us on account of Christnot on account of our works, contrition, confession, or satisfactions.

The belief that we can manage the Earth and improve on Nature is probably the ultimate expression of human conceit, but it has deep roots in the past and is almost universal.

A man on a mission is far different from a drone on a deadline.

I think my music has a big message, and I think when people really get into it, it does help their life sometimes. It inspires me; it's my favorite part about my job.