Thom Yorke on BBC Radio 2

Thom Yorke talks to Mark Radcliffe backstage at the 2006 Mercury Prize, minutes after it has gone to Arctic Monkeys and not to The Eraser. “I'm good at disgruntled,” he says. He would have loved to win, being proud of the record, but never expected to, since the prize is a random thing. During his song at the piano he stopped to glare at the room, and he explains why. The music business crowd had talked over the jazz pianist Zoe Rahman, who he thought should have won, so he gave them a Paddington hard stare. “I've got 4 minutes, so shut up for those 4 minutes.”

Rahman had asked him earlier why he always plays an upright and never a grand. Past a certain size, he says, a piano stops sounding like a guitar, and “basically, I'm strumming the piano”. The hardest part of one song on television is walking off just as the show has started. After a summer of festivals, Radiohead now go away until the next Radiohead record is done. Asked what his money has gone on, he describes his dream instead: a gin palace tour, on a yacht of the kind Paul Allen, once of Microsoft, keeps three of off Cannes, popping off at each jetty to say hello and getting back on. It will never happen, he says, because he doesn't like flying; Radcliffe points out that it's a boat. The band do not have that sort of money, he adds, and someone should tell the taxman, who is always investigating them.