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• From a Morrissey interview with Andrew Harrison in Word (June, 2003):

How do you feel about the new grown-up British rock bands - people like Radiohead or Coldplay?
Well I certainly envy the way they've been promoted, because I have never experienced that. With Coldplay, if you fail with that amount of promotion you must be pretty atrocious. They have been hammered into American society. The music bystifies me, because I don't understand why I have the monopoly on the word "miserable." Both of those bands sound very unhappy, with not a sign of a witty lyric. I might be wrong but I don't understand how they've escaped that accusation. I can't say I've enjoyed their records, no.

...In the driveway, he asked a favour. He wanted to modify a few things he said. "Please don't have me say anything unpleasant about Coldplay and Radiohead," he said. "There's no point to it, it just looks silly and mean. They're perfectly good bands, they're just not to my taste."
You called them Oldplay and Radiodead.
"I know. But I say a lot of things I don't mean."
And that was something I'd never heard from Morrissey before.

• Radiohead covered "The Headmaster Ritual" in a studio webcast (Nov. 2007).

• Johnny Marr plays The Smiths, Radiohead in New Zealand - Morrissey-solo (Jan. 8, 2009)

• Johnny Marr reacts to Radiohead's album release - Morrissey-solo (Oct. 12, 2007)

• Thom Yorke mentions staying in same room as Morrissey - Morrissey-solo (Aug. 25, 2005)

• Radiohead's Ed O'Brien mentions Smiths, Morrissey in new Spin interview - Morrissey-solo (May 26, 2003)

July 2003 issue of Spin, Thom Yorke of Radiohead on the cover

While talking about Thom Yorke being a gymnast in high school, Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien says "It's like how Morrissey was a great long-distance runner in high school - nobody knows that, either". Later on the article says that The Smiths are one of the bands top two influences, whom all 5 members love unequivocally.

• Radiohead mentions Smiths as influence in Mojo article - Morrissey-solo (June 13, 2001)

Radiohead's Ed O'Brien made this statement in the June 2001 Mojo:

"My suggestion for OK Computer's follow-up had been to say, Let's go back top the well-crafted three-and-a-half minute song. I came from idolising The Smiths in the 80's and I thought that would be the shocking thing to do. It was really difficult because, as a musician, I express myself more emotionally then cerebrally."

• Radiohead's Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood mention The Smiths' influence behind Amnesiac's "Knives Out" - Morrissey-solo (June 4, 2001)

• A Moz-spotting At Radiohead - Morrissey-solo (Aug. 28, 1997)