Yago: In 1978, NASA sent out the Voyager Space Probe with a soundtrack from Beethoven to "Johnny B. Goode" and attempted to contact extraterrestrial life with these songs. If you could've put any one song on the Voyager space probe to contact alien life, which would it have been?
C. Greenwood: While we were doing the record, Jonny got the satellite program for listening to broadcasts from outer space, so we had that running on the computer. It was cool.
J. Greenwood: Yeah, I got a bit obsessed with all that. I copied the list of music you're talking about. I've got it in my book, all the things that people thought summed up with music. As to what I'd choose, they sort of got it quite right in a way. A song you want [on there]?
Yago: [Yes], a song.
J. Greenwood: "Shipbuilding" by Elvis Costello is a very good song to do.
Yago: Any from your own repertoire?
J. Greenwood: No.
Yago: Do you guys have any interest in scoring movie soundtracks in the future?
J. Greenwood: Yes. We're sort of tentatively trying a few things out. We're trying to turn our studio into something that can do that. We're assembling old televisions and video recorders and trying to work out how we're going to do it.
Yago: Is there any one director that you would absolutely kill to do a soundtrack for?
Yorke: Well, yeah, but it's best not to say. If we do it, it has to be a very chilled out thing. Because having never done it, we might f--- it up really badly.
Yago: "I Might Be Wrong," off of Amnesiac, is going to be in a commercial for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games?
Yorke: Yes! We need the cash.
O'Brien: There's no cash. It's charity!
C. Greenwood: There's no money involved. We're into the snowboarding event, it's really good.
C. Greenwood: It's advertising the lifestyle before the advertisers get to it. We thought we'd get there first with music.
Yago: You didn't include any songs from your first album, Pablo Honey, in your setlist for this tour. Do you guys never want to play those songs again?
J. Greenwood: Every time we rehearse all the songs we can just about play and whichever ones are sounding fresh and still sounding good, we'll include them. That's sort of how it works.
Yago: I read that Brian Eno used to keep these cue cards in his studio that said, "Whatever worked last time, never do it again." Do you guys have a similar philosophy?
Yorke: Don't have time to write the cue cards.
Yago: What would the Radiohead of 2001 say to the Radiohead of 1991?
Selway: There's going to be a dark moment in about one-and-half years when you record a song called "Pop Is Dead." Don't do that!
Yorke: And then there's that bit around '98 where you sort of have to take it easy and chill out a little bit, and do less of the distortion guitars and choruses. And maybe forget about the rock thing a little bit earlier. And take it easy, don't be quite so hard on yourself around '97, '98 and attempt to get a life of some description because it tends to help.
Selway: We wouldn't have listened anyway.
Yorke: No, no, we were bloody pig-headed. If I met my 21-year-old person, I would have bloody throttled him. [RealVideo]