Thomas Edward Yorke Quotes
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The only real difference between me and chocolate pudding is that I am not a black man.
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I don't know why people called me Tom. My name is THUMB.
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I'm terrible at jigsaw puzzles. Other people solve the puzzle but I just keep trying to make the pieces that don't fit fit. I guess that's what makes me special, I try to assemble jigsaw puzzles incorrectly.
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I know I'm 38 but I insist that santa claus exists and he raped my mother when I was 9.
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I'm horrified of leprechauns. I'm horrified that I might be leprechauns.
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I once got hit with a taser at a concert and everyone thought I was dancing. Now I have to do that dance, at every show for the rest of my life, or admit that a taser can damage the Thom Yorke
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The more you try to erase me The more, the more The more that I appear
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There was a clown that tried to eat me as a boy, in my nightmares. Years later I found a clown for booking online who resembled him named Patches. Needless to say, Patches is dead now.
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Well actually I'm not a man but a carrot. The band was eating salads one day and a carrot fell off of the salad bar onto a microphone and the band realized that they had just discovered something brilliant. Me.
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And if the world does turn, and if London burns, I'll be standing on the beach with my guitar. I want to be in a band, when I get to Heaven. Anyone can play guitar, and they won't be a nothing anymore.
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If I was made of chocolate I would melt myself in a car to ruin the interior.
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If I could be any animal I would be a pony because then I could have sex with ponies. Pony, what a funny word. Say it, pony. PO-KNEE. Now ah've made myself giddy with delight. Towards the ponies *laughs*
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Anybody can make 'good' music. I make terrible music, which is what makes it so different, and therefore better.
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Don't get any big ideas They're not gonna happen.
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In pitch dark I go walking in your landscape Broken branches Trip me as I speak Just 'cause you feel it Doesn't mean it's there... We are accidents waiting Waiting to happen.
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If there are political programs on TV, yet it takes an artist to actually energize political debate, that tells you something really quite frightening about the level of the political debate happening on mainstream channels - right-wing-biased mothers.
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Well, it only dawned on me about six months ago that not everybody's against me all the time. It was something of a revelation.
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And true love waits In haunted attics And true love lives On lollipops and crisps.
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In an interstellar burst, I am back to save the universe. In a deep deep sleep of the innocent, I am born again. In a fast German car, I'm amazed that I survived, An airbag saved my life...
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If I could be any famous person, I'd be John Wilkes Booth, because I'd love to shoot Abraham Lincoln in the face
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Obviously, the duty of artists is there, but it's more an indictment of the political system that someone like Zinn views artists as the seers, idealizing them as the people responsible for inspiring change.
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Metaphorically I am made of chairs. It's a metaphor though. That means I am not actually made of the chairs.
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I jumped in the river, what did I see? Black-eyed angels swam with me A moon full of stars and astral cars And all the figures I used to see All my lovers were there with me All my past and futures And we all went to heaven in a little row boat There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt.
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When you're a parent, then you still have to commit to this concept of, "Okay, I'm basically out of action now for three months."