Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration.

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.

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.

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

Fall in love with life. We are here on earth for a while.

When you begin to run after miracles you dehumanize yourself.

I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may.

Jim Bakker came along. He said, Jessica Hahn, listen. You're a virgin. As God as my witness. He said, We need a girl that we can trust.

Live your life; whatever that life may be.

I didn't get lessons of any kind I slept through school.

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

Somebody said that Reason was dead. Reason said: No, I think not so.

Between Peaks There Are Always Valleys. How You Manage Your Valley Determines How Soon You Reach Your Next Peak.

I always try to go back and check my old stuff. It's like watching the tapes of the game. You want to go back and go as hard as before.