Tom York

We'd been in a van driving around doing support gigs.

So how did it feel?

It felt funny, a bit of a panic.

It imbued the sense that we absolutely didn't deserve this.

Thus, ten years of overcompensating for that by never, ever, ever doing anything that wasn't the best that we could possibly do to the point of total obsessiveness.

You know, we expected to be able to build up our ability to do what we needed to do, get better at it, and then one day the doors would open, but unfortunately the doors opened way before we were ready.

I mean, I'm not complaining, actually, because basically without that, we never would have been given the chance, never been allowed to spend months in the studio, because that's the way that record companies worked in those days.

If you were making them money, they'll let you do what you want.

And I mean, that downside, processing it at a pretty young age, you know, 22, 23, maybe very sensitive person.

How did you cope with it emotionally?

I got angry because I've been pretending all programme that I'm like this sensitive, you know, but I'm also an extremely angry person.

And I got more control freakery.

I became more unbearable, more like it's going to be like this or it's not going to happen.

I sort of put my hands on the steering wheel and I white knuckled.

And I didn't care who got hurt and I didn't care what I said until the end of OK Computer.

I just was white knuckled.

Don't mess with me because this is what's happening.

Years later, I sat down with the guys and I apologised.

I'm sorry, I didn't realise how bad it got.

But that was my way.