- I think guitarists are really over-admired and over-revered. I don't mind when people are telling me about their 1971 Firebird, but it's the same thing as people telling me about their car or something. It's fine if you have an interest. By talking with me though, you could be interviewing a novelist about guitars. It's the same thing, except I don't write that well either. I like my guitar and I enjoy playing it.
- Most prog is awful. I've got it into my head that prog rock must be good because it attracted a lot of fans. But so far, I've just trawled through fairly tedious Genesis albums.
- At least we played well. But I don't think the irony was lost on people. All these gorgeous, bikinied girls shaking their mammary glands, and we're playing Creep and looking terrible.
- Jamaican reggae is the style of music I always reach for when ranting to friends about how you could listen to one style of music exclusively for the rest of your life - and it would all be great and varied and worth hearing.
- Nothing's more exciting than playing an electric guitar in a small room with a good drummer.
- I know that sounds really cheesy, but it should unlistenable to the previous generation. There should be someone saying, 'That's not music.'
- I never think in visual terms when Radiohead are working. But on soundtrack work, I do get motivated by the interesting syntheses between music and picture.
- I've always hated guitar solos. There's nothing worse than hearing someone cautiously going up and down the scales of their guitar. You can hear them thinking about what the next note should be, and then out it comes. It's more interesting to write something that doesn't outstay its welcome.
- I'm more proud of what we've written than how I play.
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