I Think Guitarists Are Really Over-admired And

Every American College Student Goes To College With A Hard Drive. They Take Their Laptop. There's Not A Cd Player In Sight.

Maybe I'm Used To Religious Music Being Gentler In The Classical World.

Nothing's More Exciting Than A Day In A Studio With A String Section - Or More Ruinously Expensive. So It's Good To Feed That Habit Away From The Band, Especially If It Means More Experience For The Next Radiohead String Day.

Right Now My Mind Is On The People Who Stole Our Instruments, And, Specifically, The Person With My Guitar, Which Will No Doubt End Its Days Having Green Day Songs Worked Out On It. A Better Fate Was Deserved - And While The Reverence Given To Guitars Annoys Me, I Shall Miss It.

Composers Are Influenced By All The Important Music In Their Lives - And I Suppose That Since Radio Started Playing Popular Music, That's As Likely To Be The Beatles Or Aphex Twin As It Is To Be Verdi Or Ravel. They'd Be Strange Teenagers If They Didn't. But Cross-pollinating Happens Too - Aphex Twin Did More Interesting Things With Electronic Music Than Most Trained Composers, Who Seemed To Approach Samplers With Undue Caution And Reverence In Those Early Days.