Life has no meaning but what we give it. I wish a few more of ye would give it a little.

I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff.

To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.

When people say you're doing something radical in rock or dance music, I'm not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. It's like trying to do something innovative in tap-dancing.

At their core, when things really matter, people see a need to turn to God for strength and protection.

Playing with wingers is more effective against European sides like Brazil than English sides like Wales.

If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the middle of the back and growling, "Wake up and write the book!

With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.

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

Kindness is no virtue, but a common duty.

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

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

your thoughts will make you a victor or a victim.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

Once you find love, you find it. There isn't an age on love.

In my fantasy I was always the savior. I would come to 'Peanuts' land and save everybody. Charlie Brown would fall madly in love with me. Peppermint Patty was so jealous.

The truth is that I didn't start as a winner. When I was a kid, I was just another reject. I started at the bottom. I think all winners do.

I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start to communicate it to the organization. But it is not the goal itself that is important.

Most of what I do is for creative people - writers and painters and photographers - trying to work through creative problems.

I learned to look up suddenly from a hatch or feeding frenzy and find myself momentarily removed from solid earth. I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself

In fact, no one has ever really wanted to go on a date with me.