I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.

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.

For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.

It is not stress that kills us. It is effective adaptation to stress that allows us to live.

The establishment of the world community will surely exact a price – and who can tell what that price may be? – in toil, suffering and blood.

Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent. You will be amazed at how your whole approach to a person or problem becomes very different.

The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong.

I have always touched on different genres whether it has been hip-hop, country and the rock element.

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.

When I was a kid, everybody that played golf was an old man. Until Tiger showed up, they weren't in very good shape.

The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

I thought 'How can I stop playing or give myself an excuse to stop playing? So I snapped my cue on Friday. It was quite fun doing it. It's gone.