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

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.

We are no longer under the 'Law', but rather the Grace of God in Christ."~R. Alan Woods [2013]

Greatness is not always good.

This isn't about keeping mountains looking pretty. Ending mountaintop removal is about keeping humanity alive.

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship

Unlock your mind, unlock your mind. Throw off the fear, and let us fly.

I find people who want to help other people to be the most interesting. I come from a family of teachers, and my friends are teachers, often times in very difficult school situations.

So, if I'm cooking, I'll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.

I simply want to take a break and catch my breath. But I also think that, sometimes, the bravest thing you can do is to deliberately keep some time free and see what the world throws at you.

I like reading the world through a writer's eyes, rather than seeing a writer looking at him or herself as if at the center of gravity of the world around them.