-
There's a pervading sense of loneliness I've had since the day I was born. Maybe a lot of other people feel the same way, but I'm not about to run up and down the street asking everybody if they're as lonely as I am. I'd probably get locked up.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
-
I recently enrolled at an elementary school and they accepted me. I am finally going to get revenge on those kids that beat me up as a boy, assuming they are still attending.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
-
Yeah, after making Pablo Honey, we started experimenting with cloning myself in order to double the band's creative energy. However, the experiment was a failure, and the defective Thom Yorke clone escaped. And formed a band called Muse.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
-
Ironically my brother died in a car accident shortly after Airbag was recorded. He's not an identical twin so I didn't care.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
-
My father slapped my thighs with a variety of meats until I began to cry and sulked in the corner. I later became a musician
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
-
I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world. They're just sitting there. I can hit them with a two by four.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
-
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
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
-
I don't know why people called me Tom. My name is THUMB.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
-
My nickname in high school was jack-o-lantern because I'm missing 9 teeth
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
-
I know I'm 38 but I insist that santa claus exists and he raped my mother when I was 9.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
-
Isn't it strange how someone can be both human and divine at the same time? I am referring, of course, to myself.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
-
I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
-
You can't make an egg without frying an egg
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
-
Remember that Cosby show where he harrassed the children? Well I put on a little suit and because I am so small they invited me on but nobody was laughing at my jokes. I guess I'm just, too, particularly smart for them.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
-
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."
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
-
Making music for Radiohead is like going to the bathroom, I'm just going to the bathroom constantly, and millions are watching me go to the bathroom.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
-
I don't even have children, it's just been an excuse to play jenga and hit softballs in my backyard with a box of laundry detergant wearing baby clothes.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
-
Sometimes I stand in store windows and pretend to be a mannequin. People are like 'hey, that mannequin looks alot like thom yorke' Then I start to sing The Gloaming and lurch toward them and they run off horrified.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
-
Is Thom Yorke there? Oh he is? Well then how the can I be Thom Yorke, talking to you, right here, on the phone.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
-
I have multiple personalities, but, being a fairly uncreative individual, they are all Thom Yorke.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
-
I'm listening to Aphex Twin. That makes me cultured and interesting.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
-
Sex is more than an act of pleasure, it’s the ability to be able to feel so close to a person, so connected, so comfortable that it’s almost breathtaking to the point you feel you can’t take it. And at this moment you’re a part of them.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
-
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.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
-
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.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
