The strangest part of Indian music is its lack of chords: There's no such thing as major or minor, and it's unusual to hear more than two different pitches at the same time.

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.

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.

Anything that has more of Graham's guitar playing, I'm bound to like.

Everything I know about pop culture I know from 'The Simpsons,' and they say the Grammys aren't very good.

I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else.

I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things.

Everything I do feels like It's going to end up being in Radiohead.

I'm pampered like you wouldn't believe.

I think guitarists are really over-admired and over-revered.

I suppose all of us - we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you're not working, and getting a buzz from feeling like you're really busy. That's the reason to sort of carry on.

Smoking had become my favorite thing in the world to do. It was like having instant comfort, no matter where or when.

In a way, we can have a much easier discussion about the future of technology than we can about why a young man kills another man in a war.

There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language

Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.

Call him drunken Ira Hayes, he won't answer any more. Not the whiskey drinking Indian, nor the Marine that went to war.

Being alone in nature is another way to feel the joy of beauty - and oneness with a greater whole.

The great myth of our times is that technology is communication.

Everything depends on knowing how much,” she said, and “Good is knowing when to stop.

Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again.