Thomas Edward Yorke Quotes
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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'd like to run for president. Or Prime Minister. I think I could do a better job.
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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 often steal sandwiches, eat them, and put the container's back., with a signed autograph of my self in its place. It's my way of giving back to society.
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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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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 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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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 may have found the cure for cancer, and I think it might be Thom Yorke Serum.
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If Bono can release an album out of nowhere then so can I!
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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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I'm listening to Aphex Twin. That makes me cultured and interesting.
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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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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 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 you're bored of the songs, you're bored of the songs. There's not much you can do.
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Sex is more than an act of pleasure, it’s the ability to be able to feel so close to a person, so connected, so comfortable that it’s almost breathtaking to the point you feel you can’t take it. And at this moment you’re a part of them.
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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 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 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 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.