...ON RADIOHEAD

·        People sometimes say that we take things too seriously, but it’s the only way you’ll get anywhere. We’re not going to sit around and wait and just be happy if something turns up. We are ambitious. You have to be.

·        [ON RADIOHEAD’S AIMS] “Smells Like Teen Spirit” had the kind of fell we’re after. When it came out on the radio, you had no choice but to listen to it. You couldn’t just drive along and ignore it, it came out to you. I hope we’ll come out of people’s speakers in the same way.

·        [ON THEIR 1^st POPULARITY] If you say you want to be desperately successful, people don’t like that. Everyone in Britain’s obsessed with credibility, trying to look like you’re not selling records when you are.

·        [ON BEING IN A BAND] I spend 99 percent of my time worrying about what it is we're doing. For someone else to actually feel it's in any way inspiring to him or her... I just can't get my head around that. It's amazing how much confidence completely changes a band. Being in a band turns you into a child and keeps you there.

·        A lot of people just seem to think we are this serious, humourless band, but a lot of things we do are really funny. On ‘Airbag’ we had great times. There was a party going on for about 3 days in a row. By the end of it, the studio was just a fucking pit of all sorts of digusting things—half finished bottles, of wine and beer spilled on the desk and ashtrays were everywhere. It was great. We do play cards and bridge and shit like everybody says we do all the time. But then, we do smoke crack in the bathroom afterwards.