Tom York

Good music comes because you are there ready to receive it.

I've heard you talking about being in the studio and describing the search for a hit, not as in a hit single, but as in the hit of a drug almost.

What's that like?

What's it like when you reach that moment?

Suddenly something happens and you get this elation.

It can feed your soul for, like, months or even years, which probably sounds incredibly precious, but honestly that's what I choose to do with my life forever.

How many years?

34, I think, is Radiohead now.

Good while.

That's me.

You know, and if it's really powerful, it's almost visual for me.

I see things.

Yeah, as you've described having synesthesia.

It's not like synesthesia in the sense that I can't see anything else, but especially when a piece of music first happens in the way you've been hoping it happens, I get that thing.

It's a colour or a shape or a movement.

I can see it in my head.

Yeah.

I mean, that's normal, right?

Well, I think it might be common, but I'm not sure about normal.

How long's that been going on?