If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.

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.

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.

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

Just as the sea is an open and ever flowing reality, so should our oceanic identity transcend all forms of insularity, to become one that is openly searching, inventive, and welcoming.

Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.

I honestly think that in order to be a writer you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are you here?

Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.

I think it is important to win a match, but I think what is even more important is the manner in which you win.

Sincere biblical repentance is as much a work of grace as not sinning in the first place. To err is human, to make progress is divine.

My wife... its difficult to say what she does... she sells seashells on the seashore.

Novels allow me to create a whole world.

The growth stock theory of investing requires patience, but is less stressful than trading, generally has less risk, and reduces brokerage commissions and income taxes.