I Can Remember Soundtracks That You Just

I Trust Microphones, Speakers And Recordings Less And Less, And No Longer Buy Into The Idea That I Can Recreate At Home, Or In My Earphones, The Experience Of Hearing Live Acoustic Instruments. The Orchestra Is Already A Set Of Speakers That React Differently To Each Player, Each Room And Each Concert - It's That High Level Of Uncertainly And Unrepeatability That I Like. The Music Is Just Soaked Into The Walls Of A Room Straight From The Instruments - And It's A One-off Deal. The Alternative - Left Speaker, Right Speaker - Is Kind Of A Compromise.

But I Was In The Radiohead Studio Today And Phil Was There Drumming And Thom Was There Playing. We Feel Like We've Only Just Stopped And Already People Are Wanting Us To Carry On.

I Like Playing The Stuff Where I Don´t Know What I´m Gonna Play. Like The End Of Fake Plastic Trees Or The End Of Paranoid Android - Stuff Where I Can Do Anything And No One Notices Or Cares.

I Think I'll Always Feel A Little In Awe Whenever I See Someone In Their 20s Or 30s Carrying A Cello Or Violin Case - Because I Know, If They're Doing It Professionally, How Many Years Of Practice Have Gone Into Being Able To Make Music With Them. And The Sounds They Can Make Just Hit Me Very Hard, And Feel Full Of Limitless Complexity.

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.