(on Planet Telex)
"Err...whooshy? Sitting in t.v. room at rak studio whilst Thom, Ed and Leckie were working on it, thinking... 'What is this old bollocks?' ...then putting bass on, thinking... 'Oh yes, oooh yess, I like it!'."

(on High and Dry)
"Over 2 years old now..ah! So young, pure and innocent then - now I'm just old, pure and innocent! Damn!"

(on Bones)
"It rocks like a mutha."

"We try to treat everywhere we play differently and that's really important. Otherwise, you feel you are just in a vacuum from going from bus to stage, play for people, into another bus and back to the hotel and it could be anywhere and that would be terrible."

"Some friends of mine were searched by British anti-terrorist police who were Radiohead fans. This was in London about a month ago after the IRA bomb. They were in another band and the policeman goes: 'Have you heard of Radiohead? They're my favorite group!' ...With their machine guns. It appeals to a lot of people."

(on the 96 Brit Awards)
"Yes, we were all there and we're never going again because it was a travesty and a farce and full of obnoxious, drug taking, alcohol swilling, corporate pigs."

"We do have a bit of a reputation of being naughty slappers of the road who'll go with anybody. The old whores that we are!"

"I know! I know one! How did Darth Vader know what Luke Skywalker was getting for Christmas? He felt his presents! There, that was funny. You didn't just laugh to be polite, did you?"

"Itís very important to try and make every concert you do special and different and we really try to do that. Itís quite psychologically draining sometimes you know."

"Thom had got into dance music at college and kept on playing theses awful house records. God only knows what they were. I was working at Our Price and in the evenings all I wanted to do was sit round and listen to the Pale Saints. But Thom would stick on this horrendous techno music. He got pretty short shrift from the rest of us."

(on living with the band)
"I don't know if I'd do it again. Maybe if it was a house in Trinidad. But it would have to large enough so we never saw each other."

(on OK Computer)
"It's not The Bends, the Sequel, or of The Prequel. But, there's a continuity. You don't get the feeling we've ripped up all the songs from The Bends and re-invented ourselves in a horribly pop-tastic way."

"This is getting a bit Crispian."

"My letter has been a bit tardy, because my computer decided to make a break for freedom in a hotel lobby in Harrisburg, and ended up crashing onto the marble floor. The has severely curtailed my surfing, just I'd discovered the joys of newsgroups and other techno trivia."

(On playing Paranoid Android to the Alanis concert-goers)
"Luckily, those fans were all in their teens, so with the trauma of adolescence and stuff, they'll forget about it. It was the Ronnie Corbett moment in the set. Time to go to the toilet."

(on Gary Davis)
"When he was doing the weekend breakfast show on Radio 1, he was the only person who played our first single, 'Prove Yourself'. The only person ANYWHERE. God knows why, condiering the chorus went, 'I'm better off dead'. I'd like to meet him and say, 'John Peel never played our record, but your did. You're a star' ".

"The Bends was many things, but it wasn't really *chirpy* was it? It was more like a darkness lumbering over the horizon with gun turrets strafing the Britpop hordes with misery. Er, sorry. Got a bit carried away there."

"I tend to play better in the studio, no pressures, just sheer volume and alcohol."

"What I really hated about Britpop was all that tiresome irony. As if bands shouldn't be serious things."

"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."

"We were all scared of Phil. He was in the class ahead of us, and he was in this band called jungle telegraph, so we knew him as 'the graf.' we weren't old enough and not in with his crowd."

"I¥ve been doing, like, three interviews a day. I feel like the mister vacuum brain bimbo at the moment, haircare techinques..."

"No surprises is our 'stadium-friendly' song. The idea was : First frighten everyone with 'Climbing up the walls' and then comfort them again with a popsong with a chorus that sounds like a lullaby."

(on okc)
"If you thought there were no singles on The Bends, you should hear this one !!"