I'm Quite Into Listening To Music And

My Style Is So Tightly Tied In With Our Songs That I Don't Think You Could Even Ask Me To Quit Radiohead And Play Guitar For Another Band. I Don't Think I Could Do It. It Would Probably Reveal Me To Be The Bluffer That I Believe I Am. That's How It Feels. I Wouldn't Have The Confidence To Do Anything But This.

Rock Music Is Quite Big In India - But It Mostly Just Replaces All The Intricacies Of Indian Rhythms And Indian Melody With Lumpen Rock Drumming And Power Chords.

Jamaican Reggae Is The Style Of Music I Always Reach For When Ranting To Friends About How You Could Listen To One Style Of Music Exclusively For The Rest Of Your Life - And It Would All Be Great And Varied And Worth Hearing.

I Suppose Subconsciously I Was Thinking In Terms Of Having The Scale Of It Matching The Scale Of The Images. Hence The Sort Of String Quartet, Jazz Band And Electronic Stuff.

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.