I don’t really set out to please anybody, and I don’t think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.

I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I’d be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day

The hardest part about being in radiohead is being inside a giant head that is a radio. Ha ha, little english humour there, or is it a hammer?

If you think about how you sound on the radio while you are on the radio, you will fuck up how you sound on the radio.

A lot of what gets on the radio isn’t saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they’re told to get it.

Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want.

I wouldn’t ever do a radio edit because I feel like it would totally go against the point of ‘Follow Your Arrow.’ I just think you’re going to like it or not like it.

In the 30 years of my career, I have explored all possible mediums, except radio.

Television really has been my vehicle. I don’t get played on the radio much, so I’ve relied on TV a lot.

I don’t sing in the shower but hiking, yes. Every day I sing a little something, to the radio or to the dogs, or a song will come into my head and I’ll sing a line of it, randomly.

I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

I could tell that my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.