Thom Yorke on BBC Radio 6

Thom Yorke comes on BBC Radio 6 Music to talk about Anima and opens by explaining why he does so few interviews. Talking about your work becomes like looking at yourself in the mirror, and years ago, when he had to do lots of them, the analysis started feeding back into the music until he was explaining what he was doing while he was doing it.

The Anima film began on a train back from France with Paul Thomas Anderson and Nigel Godrich, all agreeing they could not afford it, until Anderson made a phone call and Netflix paid. Yorke and his partner Dajana had three days to learn Damien Jalet's choreography, then watched professional dancers who had arrived that morning nail it within an hour. Anderson was convinced Yorke could do Buster Keaton. Yorke does not think he is funny, and watching it back found that he was.

When the host reads out Genius.com's interpretation of “Dawn Chorus”, Yorke calls it “hackery of the worst order”. Asked about the Kensington and Chelsea and foie gras lines in “Traffic”, Yorke says he spat the words out on stage, liked the sound and wrote them down afterwards, so he takes no responsibility for them. A listener writes in about meeting Yorke's dad in a West Oxfordshire hotel around the time of Pablo Honey, when a young man with unkempt hair and a guitar on his back came in, was handed £20 and left.

Going through the Kid A tapes with Godrich for the anniversary, Yorke could not work out how they got to “Spinning Plates” until he remembered. Godrich spun a sequencer part backwards on the tape, Colin Greenwood put a Rhodes on it, and Yorke sang the vocal backwards so it would play forwards.