I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.

So how come it looks so beautiful? How come the moon falls from the sky?

Cigarrettes make you look cool

My father beat me with a curtain rod when I was nine, (That was) the inspiration for Creep

Our merchandised may be over priced, but I think it's reasonable considering I only want more money.

Yeah, after making Pablo Honey, we started experimenting with cloning myself in order to double the band's creative energy. However, the experiment was a failure, and the defective Thom Yorke clone escaped. And formed a band called Muse.

I think a lot of tunes can suffer from being so simple, so either they get over-complicated or their simplicity means the simple way to lay them down becomes the difficulty.