Thomas Edward Yorke Quotes
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I'm banned from Middlebrook elementary for telling dirty jokes to the janitor. The janitor! He cleans up dirt for a living.
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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 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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I'd like to run for president. Or Prime Minister. I think I could do a better job.
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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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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."
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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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Us on hard drugs? That would be horrible. We'd probably end up sounding like Bryan Adams.My girlfriend has this quote in her sketchbook: Remain orderly in your life so you can be free and chaotic in your work. I think basically you lose it when you destroy your brain or destroy yourself emotionally or burn yourself up.
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You do it to yourself, you do, And that's what really hurts, Is that you do it to yourself, Just you and no one else, You do it to yourself...
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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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I don't know why people called me Tom. My name is THUMB.
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If I was an owl, I would peck your eyes out. Wow this lyric is ****ing brilliant.
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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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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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If Bono can release an album out of nowhere then so can I!
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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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If I could be any animal I would be a pony because then I could have sex with ponies.
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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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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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Kid A is about an abortion. *laughs* It's about how our music is an abortion
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I'm listening to Aphex Twin. That makes me cultured and interesting.
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I could blow bubbles. Bubbles would solve any dilemma we face. If bubbles were president there would be no war.
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If you're bored of the songs, you're bored of the songs. There's not much you can do.
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If I were a bottle of wine, my name would be Thom Cork