As you get older you realize how important your emotional response is to any kind of music.

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.

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.

I've fallen into your life, like a red ROSE from another world.

Well it's hard to be yourself, it's the hardest job there is.

No matter where you are in life . . . [y]ou always have a choice and the choice can be power.

I am overcome by my own amazing sloth...Can you please forgive me and believe that it is really because I want to do something well that I don't do it at all?

The people will learn to feel the dignity of man. They will not merely demand their rights, which have been trampled in the dust, but themselves will take them - make them their own.

Resistance! Resistance! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance!

Technology should do the hard work so people can do the things that make them the happiest in life.

Control over change would seem to consist in moving not with it but ahead of it. Anticipation gives the power to deflect and control force.

While nothing is certain, I firmly believe our nation is on the verge of a nuclear energy renaissance.