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.

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

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.

When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there.

For me that's what's fascinating about the internet, that aggregate thing.

You should approach technological things in a nostalgic way.

Limits are very important.