If I weren't in Radiohead I'd be working at a grocery store, I'd be that creepy guy who lives in an efficiency apartment and collects salted, cured meats.

I want to be alone and I want people to notice me — both at the same time.

I think sometimes all the charities are doing is mopping up the blood. It’s a shame.

And true love waits In haunted attics And true love lives On lollipops and crisps

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.

Amnesiac was written to make fun of senior citizens with alzheimers. I hate them and I wish they'd die.

The video of 'Paranoid Android' has been censored by MTV. They took all nipples out of the cartoon, but they had no problem with the scene in which a man cuts off his own arms and legs.

I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.

It's easy to be miserable. Being happy is tougher - and cooler.

The more you try to erase me The more, the more The more that I appear

I can't wait to die so I can be a skeleton and play my chest like a xylophone.

Faith is the switch that turns the impossible into possible.

The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy.

Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.

It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.

I think Fidel [Castro] has a stronger allergy to the market than his brother, but he is not getting in the way of what his brother is implementing.

People support CPF cuts because there are no protest outside parliament.

She had discovered that the best remedy for heartache was trying to make herself useful to others.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.

Songwritng is what I do.

Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.