I tend to play better in the studio, no pressures, just sheer volume and alcohol.

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.

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable

No woman in maternity confinement can have stranger and more impatient wishes than I have.

I will never lie again.

I've seen high and lows. When things go well that doesn't make me feel like some genius. Nor will I allow the next disappointment to make me feel like a complete failure.

Good art should elicit a response of 'Huh? Wow!' as opposed to ‘Wow! Huh?'

The aesthetic, as I understand it, is really about the way in which we understand beauty and speak and think about beauty.

I do not have one theme for each season, I just try to make beautiful clothes all year round.

Economists are people who wonder if what works in reality can also work in theory.

Our campaign is powered by college students who are not about to let the first genocide of the 21st century happen on their watch.

Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.