Thomas Edward Yorke Quotes
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We weren't listening to guitar bands, we were thoroughly ashamed of being a guitar band. So we bought loads of keyboards and learned how to use them, and when we got bored we went back to guitars.
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One little leak becomes a lake, Says the tiny voice in my earpiece
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Cigarrettes make you look cool
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It's maybe a good thing to try to make music that feels reassuring in some ways - something that's got a good feeling, a good vibe about it.
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Where are you sleeping tonight? Face down in the mud? That's a British tradition: Take acid and fall asleep in some field.
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Have I told you I have cancer? It's a very special kind of cancer. Cancer of the soul.
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I see fat kids on the street all the time and I give them free radiohead t-shirts with bullseyes on them. Later when I see them wearing the t-shirts I shoot at them with bb guns while riding a very large dog and singing kicking squealing gucci little piggy over and over
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Have you ever seen any member of radiohead aside from me in public? Do they interact or 'lift' objects? Holograms, all of them. I created them in 1991 using my massive brainpower. Even pitchforkmedia is a product of my brilliant imagination.
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Like a fat raccoon rummaging through the garbage, that how I eat. Like a f-king fat raccoon.
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When I was born, my mother didn't know what to name me. Eventually she named me after Thom Yorke.
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How come I end up where I started How come I end up where I belong... You used to be alright What happened?
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Do not tell me what I can and cannot do. I'll be as asian as I want to (Stretches his eyes in a racist manner).
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I guess I am narcisstic, but only in the sense that I am brilliant and tortured as well
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When people ask me for an autograph I usually ask for a pen and then stab them with it.
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What's the difference between Thom Yorke and a pizza? Pizza's not as cheesy and delicious as Thom Yorke.
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I'm Chris Martin with down syndrome
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I think what makes people ill a lot of the time is the belief that your thoughts are concrete and that you're responsible for your thoughts. Whereas actually - the way I see it - your thoughts are what the wind blows through your mind.
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It will be only a matter of time before the music business establishment completely folds.
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Bulletproof is about the fact that I was shot in the face and survived. Nah I'm joking that'd be grisly and awful.
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If we replaced all of our guns with chicken sandwiches it would end all war immediately.
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I'm not a martyr, just a musician who dies for your sins. Oh, that's what a martyr is? Very well then, I am a martyr, if you insist.
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Alot of my lyrics are about beating my children. 'Hit the bottom and escape' is a cry for help. oh god someone stop me
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There are a lot of things I cannot do, such as eat books and read chicken.
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What happens a lot with songwriting is that a melody or rhythm or something stays with you like catching a cold. And during that time what happens is that I can then fit things on to it, it all fits and glues together. Sometimes it's crazy cos it can almost be anything. But if you catch the cold then the nonsense makes sense. It's like you're getting beamed it, like with a ouija board and something's pushing your hand. It's not a pleasant experience necessarily.