Warp was important to Thom about two years ago when he was looking for different sounds.

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.

It's a wholly illogical but nonetheless powerful belief that things will change for the better in a new place

Always bet on the underdog. They've got ambition and nothing to lose.

Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.

I give credence to the worst things somebody writes about me, and if somebody writes something nice, I think they're wrong or false or lying or joking.

A marveilous newtrality have these things mathematicall, and also a strange participation between things supernaturall and things naturall.

John Hurt was incredible to work with.

Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.

A lot of people forget that R&B put hip-hop on, R&B put rock on.

Be relentless in your looking, because you are the one you seek.

Never done an explosion, but I have had explosive diarrhea, and that was very, very real. Good thing I have my trailer.