Quotes from Colin Greenwood

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.

With our website we didn't want people to come to our site and find out about Radiohead. We wanted them to come to our site and find out about what Radiohead are finding out about.

It's a full on job just looking for human social responsibility.

Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration.

I don't listen to much modern composition.

There's no point apologizing about where you come from.

Our site should be like Paddington Station with a much better version of WH Smith's in it.

We stuck the record head so it kept on recording over and over on top of itself and played keyboard notes into it to create this ghost repetition melody.

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

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.

No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much less when there were no controls of any sort and when anyone, convicted criminal or lunatic, could buy any type of firearm without restriction. Half a century of strict controls on pistols has ended, perversely, with a far greater use of this weapon in crime than ever before.

The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive.

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

If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.