Thomas Edward Yorke Quotes
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I have this thing about my own voice on record. No matter what I sing, it sounds really serious, and I sound self loathing or whatever, which was just driving me nuts because that's not what I was writing.
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My nickname in high school was jack-o-lantern because I'm missing 9 teeth
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I don't know why people called me Tom. My name is THUMB.
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Generally, it's not good to be engaged directly with the political system unless you are qualified. It`s a very depressing business, the way politics works. You get stuck into it, but then, at some point, you have to walk away. I had to walk away, because it's like this dark, black energy void. There are some people who have dedicated their lives to living in that energy void, but I can't do it. I just can't go there. It feels like you're treading water too much when you do. It's a crazy thing.
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I'm listening to Aphex Twin. That makes me cultured and interesting.
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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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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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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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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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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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I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world. They're just sitting there. I can hit them with a two by four.
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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 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'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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Kid A is about an abortion. *laughs* It's about how our music is an abortion
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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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Don't get any big ideas They're not gonna happen.
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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 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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If Bono can release an album out of nowhere then so can I!
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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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I may have found the cure for cancer, and I think it might be Thom Yorke Serum.
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I could blow bubbles. Bubbles would solve any dilemma we face. If bubbles were president there would be no war.