Thomas Edward Yorke Quotes
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Almost every song on OK Computer revolves around how I am afraid computers get up at night and attempt to choke me with their wires.*doesn't laugh*
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Kid A is about an abortion. *laughs* It's about how our music is an abortion
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The problem is, I cannot meditate. That's the one thing I can't do. That's the thing that's driving me nuts. I have a house by the sea, and I can sit and listen to the sound of the sea and eventually... but I can't really do it.
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And true love waits In haunted attics And true love lives On lollipops and crisps.
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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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If I were to be any celebrity, I'd be Chris Martin. I've always wondered what it would be like to be jealous of Thom Yorke.
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My nickname in high school was jack-o-lantern because I'm missing 9 teeth
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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.
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It's not so much that I'm an atheist so much as the sneaking suspicion that I myself may be god
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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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My father beat me with a curtain rod when I was nine, (That was) the inspiration for Creep
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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 famous person, I'd be John Wilkes Booth, because I'd love to shoot Abraham Lincoln in the face
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I will never run out of quotes. I am, after all, the Thom Yorke.
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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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I'm achingly aware of my own limitations as both part of the human race and as an individual. I'm just, casting this out that, maybe, I'm not so perfect as is the affront I oft put on. After all, the lyric is 'I wish I was special'. I truly just want to be loved and accepted, I think, like all humans.
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It's God's will that millions of people are gonna die this year because of some outmoded economic policies? No, it's not!
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I got into the music business thinking it was really radical, that it wasn't really a business at all, that it was a lot of people being artistic and creative. Not true, and it made me very depressed.
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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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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.
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One person can't change the world. But Thom Yorke can, because he's two people. Both of them are Thom Yorke.
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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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To protest, I stood in the place of a waste receptacle and opened my mouth. That's how I lost my virginity *laughs*
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Chicken Little change my life when I was younger. I had no idea chickens could talk *laughs*.