It would be really nice to be able to put out releases that wouldn't be conditional upon an album format, and just put out music in different ways.

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.

It's better to hate someone in the beginning rather than end up hating someone after loving.

If you keep waiting for the right time, it may never happen. Sometimes you have to make the most of the time you have.

Die in my nightmares

I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just to write music about it. They can interpret it themselves.

I never expected that, 20 years later, Chucky would be considered a classic, if I may invoke that term. A golden oldie anyway, something that people still care about 20 years later.

In meditation all the fake dull thoughts that you think, all the ridiculous philosophies, the necessities, all the things that won't matter a bit when you are dead - fade away.

People are always asking me how much I'm worth. Well, all I can say is, I've got enough money to last me the rest of my life. As long as I die in the next 20 minutes.

Every child has a right to go to high school and end up with a third grade education.

He that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

Nothing happens for ages, and then all the changes come at once.