Radiohead is overrated. Thom Yorke's solo output, however, is brilliant.

I want to be alone and I want people to notice me — both at the same time.

I think sometimes all the charities are doing is mopping up the blood. It’s a shame.

And true love waits In haunted attics And true love lives On lollipops and crisps

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.

Amnesiac was written to make fun of senior citizens with alzheimers. I hate them and I wish they'd die.

The video of 'Paranoid Android' has been censored by MTV. They took all nipples out of the cartoon, but they had no problem with the scene in which a man cuts off his own arms and legs.

I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.

It's easy to be miserable. Being happy is tougher - and cooler.

The more you try to erase me The more, the more The more that I appear

I can't wait to die so I can be a skeleton and play my chest like a xylophone.

Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.

The platonic love I feel for my cousin, made me write this diary ...”Leione

We think in generalities but we live in detail.

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

The ingredients of a hamburger seldom vary. It's a percentage of fat to lean meat, add salt and prepare and that's it. It shouldn't need a recipe.

Incredible things can be done simply if we are committed to making them happen.

Books that talk about 'contemplation' often seem to have been written on Jupiter. This one is a sterling exception.

When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.

It is a gift when someone can challenge you and open your mind to new ideas.

Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living.