In one of your recent interviews, you were quoted as referring to Radiohead’s pause as having been a breakup. Was it an actual breakup or sort of an open-ended hiatus?
No! Someone must have misinterpreted me. It was never a breakup. It was a hiatus. We wouldn’t be that stupid. We just needed a break. I mean, it’s like family. Everybody needed to get out of the house. You need to leave home, right? And we come back every year for Christmas.
That was the end of a chapter. The bonds and the relationships, it’s family. Our kids love one another, they’re like cousins. They have this bond as the kids of guys in Radiohead, families in Radiohead. Only they know that experience. It’s this beautiful thing, so we would never split up. That would be crazy.