Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.

I don't listen to much modern composition.

We are kind of one step removed, not really in the center of things.

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

I don't think anything's underground anymore. And I think that's a good thing. Everything is up for grabs.

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.

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.