Thom Yorke talks to Polish Radio

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With Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood taking the stage at the Open'er Festival Saturday night, for a special concert of music by American composer Steve Reich, it's a good time to catch up with the band's mercurial singer/songwriter Thom Yorke.

“All my mates got into bands to get girls and stuff. But as I was not a boy girls were into that had no effect. I just did it because it meant more to me than anything else,” Yorke tells Polish Radio's Agnieszka Szydłowska.

Even though 1997's OK Computer was the biggest selling album of that year, Yorke says that dance music became more and more an influence on his songwriting.

“It was like: are we going to be strumming guitars for the rest of our lives,” he says.

“Part of making music is listening to other music, to me, it always has been. Nothing comes out of thin air, nothing is original”.