The thing about rock is that people are not just interested in bands because of where they want to go. It's where they want to escape from that matters.

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.

A town with many men who are less educated and as such ignorant of the real solution to the woes of their society has the same problem as a town with many intellectuals and yet with many problems

I'm really happy to see the explosion of interest in Korean food, and this hybrid Korean-American food.

It's a very important issue to me, trying to wake people up to the fact that we'd better take better care of our planet.

My preparation is mainly just knowing the lines and getting in and knowing where your character is, knowing what it's about and having ideas that you can put in on the day.

Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.

I want to see more companies do profit-sharing. If you help create the profits, you should be able to share in them, not just the executives at the top.

Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.

You can't be patient if you're not strong.

Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.

You are very clever," said the old man shyly. "I would like to eat your brains, one day.