There's something I find incredibly exciting about just leaving something to run, just listening to it, not actually play at the time, not singing along. TY: What I find interesting in taking on programming and editing and sampling is it stops you trying to emote. When we finished the record I just realised that this was what it was all about. And ultimately being so incredibly angry it was inexpressable. ![]() But it was really because I had felt that I totally lost control of any element of my life, of anything I was involved in. TY: Yeah, I didn't really know.I don't think I knew until finishing Kid A what it was all about or the reason I had such a terrible block. Q: Did you find the specific reason why you got into the writer's block? The idea was there was no plan at all, we had just lots of ideas, half formed ideas and hoped that some of them would see themselves through. I didn't have much to hold on to really, in any way! Two years writing block, writing things and throwing them away, I guess that's where Kid A started and the bits and pieces that went with it. Because basically I found myself in a place I didn't wanna be, ended up in a place I didn't wanna be and didn't recognize myself, and wasn't really interested in what we were supposed to have done. TY: It was a mess, a pretty bad mess, for quite a while, personally. Q: What happened after you came back from the OK-Computer tour? Thom: What's it like? (long silence) It's like losing someone you love! Q: What's it like having a writer's block? How does it work in practice, or doesn't work in practice?
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