In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures.

That's why I love playing shows, you've got thousands of people sharing their personal passion for the music with each other, it's such a wonderful thing to be able to curate.

In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.

Occasionally I play the music for my mother when she demands to hear it and she always just says, 'Who is that singing? I don't like the singing.' And then she says 'Who's doing all that bumpety-bump noise?' It's all noise backing up horrible singing as far as she's concerned. She's not a show-biz mother.

Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration.

The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything.

The thing about rock is that people are not just interested in bands because of where they want to go. It's where they want to escape from that matters.