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.

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

Those that dare not to dream big are cowards, for they fear to expose the already great potentials embedded inside of them.

My father taught me how to understand and be sensitive to others, which is probably the most critical aspect of leadership. Without it you are only a manager.

You can't stay in the dark for too long. Something inside you starts to fade, and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light.

You are the song of my mind, melody of my soul, dance of my spirit, and the indescribable ecstasy of my life.

At the heart of all of mankind’s achievements is imagination.

My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.

I'm good in bed, actually, and I think I could learn to be a good communicator, too. The only trouble with that is it leads to marriage.

The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

The biggest share of U.S. exports to the six CAFTA nations is not the traditional job-creation kind. These are products that are not consumed in the purchasing nations.

When the mind's an empty room The clear days come.