Thom Yorke on MusiquePlus

Thom Yorke talks to MusiquePlus in 2003. Will the band act in their videos again? Definitely, he says, with dance routines, and he has been trying to sell the others on all dressing up in safari uniforms.

Everybody in Radiohead is always pulling in different directions at once, which brings adjustment periods. He is glad of it, and would be worried if they were still listening to the records they liked seven or eight years before.

A journalist asked him recently whether he was clinically depressed, and he said yes, because it was more interesting and what the man wanted anyway; everybody believed it. That leads him to the British tabloids. They can destroy anybody, he says. Britain used to be very fond of hanging, and now it drags people through the papers, so they are not dead at the end but cannot leave the house. It is the same morbid British fascination with watching somebody else suffer. The interviewer wishes they had time to end on something positive.