true love waits

Thom Yorke photographed in 1997.- © Andrew Catlin

““Thom has got this reputation that he’s a real difficult customer and it’s really unfair. The real weight of the responsibility for the music goes on his shoulders. He has an awful lot to prove and an awful lot to answer to. He’s the one who writes the songs. He’s the energy that everyone feeds off. He’s such an amazingly prolific creative person that everyone looks to him for energy. The problem he has is that he’s rejected the conventional media, he’s been offish to too many people too many times in the past. You have to understand how he feels. He gets letters of empathy from people on death row. I know what journalists can be like- you fuckers. Basically I think he put a few people’s noses out very early on. He just doesn’t want to talk to them. He’s the loveliest guy on the fucking planet. They’re so tight as a group of people- I’ve never met a group like that before.””