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

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.

There's no point apologizing about where you come from.

Finding the tool is often half the battle.

I try to retire jokes as soon as I can once I put them on an album. But I can't think of anything I just stopped doing for no reason.

When we work to end childhood hunger, we are giving our love to kids who need it so much they will never ask for it.

There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference.

Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.

All the discoveries seem to be discoveries of means.

Even a good decision if made for the wrong reasons can be a wrong decision.

The one hit song that I have tremendous gratitude for is Boots, because it has a life of its own. It's like being identified with a brand name.

Cancer changes your whole life.

No weapon formed against me shall prosper