Thomas Edward Yorke Quotes
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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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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 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 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 know I'm 38 but I insist that santa claus exists and he raped my mother when I was 9.
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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 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'm listening to Aphex Twin. That makes me cultured and interesting.
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Anybody can make 'good' music. I make terrible music, which is what makes it so different, and therefore better.
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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 I was an owl, I would peck your eyes out. Wow this lyric is ****ing brilliant.
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If Bono can release an album out of nowhere then so can I!
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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 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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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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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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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 named my son Noah for the same reason Chris Martin named his apple: we're asses.
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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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There was a clown that tried to eat me as a boy, in my nightmares. Years later I found a clown for booking online who resembled him named Patches. Needless to say, Patches is dead now.
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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 could be any animal I would be a pony because then I could have sex with ponies.
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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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Rock music is, is a necessary evil, like beating my children with penny loafers