Thomas Edward Yorke Quotes
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I've tried crowd surfing but the radiating light that surrounds me kept sending me floating into the heavens. Goddamn I'm beautiful
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I became a vegan because I'm better than you
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You are my centre when I spin away.
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There are a lot of things I cannot do, such as eat books and read chicken.
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I ultimately decided that I couldn't beat it more than three times a day, (I) was just too drained and chapped. That's what Radiohead is about. You're just drained and chapped, down there.
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I suppose one thing that's always fascinated me is that thing where you're a band and you want to start recording and you get a label and a producer, and then there's that pressure to go out there and really toil.
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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'll take a quiet life, A handshake of carbon monoxide. No alarms and no surprises...
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Why did the chicken cross the road? Because he's a goddamn chicken he doesn't know what the **** he's doing
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I don't really think of most non-English as people, more or less indigenous squirrels that I fancy to kick around with my snakeskin French Persian Boots
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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 was abducted by aliens as a boy. Aliens is the name of a pedophile who lived in my alley.
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The allegations of me being a pedophile are spurious, at best. However I will admit that taking my knickers off in the park and having an Easter Egg hunt with those apple-cheeked four year olds was in my best interest and not theirs
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Sometimes when you get an opportunity to appropriate your work, or use whatever collateral you have, for something good, you think, "Well, yeah, you should do this." You're not in any way qualified to do it, but I was so sick of hearing so many unqualified people say that global warming doesn't exist, I thought, "Well, I'm no less qualified than they are, so I can deal with doing it."
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Performing is great, but you are exposed to all this extra stuff that you don't have to deal with when you stop. I'm getting used to it now, but it's kind of just the fallout. It's really weird. It's not a natural situation to be in. It sounds like moaning, because I know that's what I'm supposed to do, and I'm not moaning.
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It's a fine line between writing something with genuine emotional impact and turning into little idiots feeling sorry for ourselves and playing stadium rock.
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Build gaps in your life. Pauses. Proper pauses.
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I actually saw the loch ness monster when I was 9. She was big as a house. Want to know who the loch ness monster is? It's your obese mother. Burn mother****er
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Radiohead is overrated. Thom Yorke's solo output, however, is brilliant.
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The only thing worse than Radiohead fans is everything else except me
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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.
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The concept of Kid A? How about the concept of I kick your ****ing ass
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There's an upside to the digital thing from my point of view because I find that I have access to all this wacky, weird-ass dance-music stuff that I just can't go into a shop and buy on vinyl.
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The only real difference between me and chocolate pudding is that I am not a black man.