Thomas Edward Yorke Quotes
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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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If I was an owl, I would peck your eyes out. Wow this lyric is ****ing brilliant.
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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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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 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 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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I'm a full grown man and I'm not tall enough to ride a rollercoaster. So I will sit on the teacups, eat my tea and biscuits and reminisce with the cheshire cat who lives in my head. Oh hello Mr. Cheshire, lovely weather this morning. Mr. Cheshire? Oh my god.
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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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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 hate to sound self absorbed, but I'm just going to cast out this pearl of wisdom, if I could give the whole world cancer and kill them and be the last man on earth it would be a sign that god loves me especially.
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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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The only thing more difficult than being a God is being Thom Yorke. Thom Yorke has all these responsibilities, to save the planet. To save the world. To redeem Thom Yorke.
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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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The head of state Has called for me by name But I don't have time for him It's gonna be a glorious day I feel my luck could 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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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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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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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 named my son Noah for the same reason Chris Martin named his apple: we're asses.
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Kid A is about an abortion. *laughs* It's about how our music is an abortion
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People sometimes say we take things too seriously, but it's the only way you'll get anywhere.
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15 Step is about how if you have mental illness and try to dance you look very funny. Whenever you see me dancing on stage, I'm imitating the mentally ill.
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She looks like the real thing She tastes like the real thing My fake plastic love But I can't help the feeling I could blow through the ceiling If I just turn and run.
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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*