People need to focus on bigger issues instead of whether George Bush is an idiot or not.

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.

From those to whom privilege and opportunity are given, we have the right to expect much.

We call them grunters. They're ghost hunters but grunters is more appropriate because most of them are pigs.

Education today more than ever before must see clearly the dual objectives: education for living and educating for making a living.

To tell the truth, I could beat anybody in the world.

Pride is ugly. It says 'If you succeed I am a failure.'

Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.

Subdue your heart to match your circumstances.

I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.

When the souls rise up in glory, yours shall not be shunned nor sunderered, but shall be the prize of the gods' gardens. Even your darkness shall be treasured then, and all your pain made holy.

Could you do a liberal propaganda tool that would bore the bejesus out of people? No.