We weren't listening to guitar bands, we were thoroughly ashamed of being a guitar band. So we bought loads of keyboards and learned how to use them, and when we got bored we went back to guitars.

People sometimes say we take things too seriously, but it's the only way you'll get anywhere.

I didn't ask to be Thom Yorke. Thom Yorke asked to be me.

I want to be alone and I want people to notice me — both at the same time.

We don't have to stand on a soap-box and preach because hopefully we're channelling it through the new record.

I'd go onstage doing this thing, trying to fill this arena that I can't fill because I don't understand what this is. It's like you're given a job that's beyond you. And it's taken me years to realize what works in those big situations.

Coming from Britain, I was terrified of meeting all these other artists, because artists over there tend to fight with each other a lot, the premise being that there's not enough room for everybody.