You should approach technological things in a nostalgic way.

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.

Self-worth and net worth are not the same.

For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting.

[...] marriage is one thing, and love is another...You need to have a solid canvas; nobody stops you to weave the arabesques.

Give up the dream that Love may trick the fates To live again somewhere beyond the gleam Of dying stars, or shatter the strong gates Some god has builded high; give up the dream.

I feel like I'm back in business now, and I'm managing pretty well as a single mum. I've proved to myself I can do it. You come out the other end and think, 'Wow, I'm pretty good at this!'

What appeals to you the most is the very thing that will drive you crazy

President Bush will go down in history as the torture president. He has now defied a majority of Congress to allow the use of interrogation techniques that any reasonable observer would call torture.

America is greatest country; but not our government.

A winemaker never, never changes the character of a wine. The character comes from the grapes.

Shut your damn mouth.