Thomas Edward Yorke Quotes
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You do it to yourself, you do, And that's what really hurts, Is that you do it to yourself, Just you and no one else, You do it to yourself...
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I can't wait to die so I can be a skeleton and play my chest like a xylophone.
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Drying up in conversation You will be the one who cannot talk All your insides fall to pieces You just sit there wishing you could still make love.
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We're at a time when we are being presented with undeniable changes in the global climate and fundamental issues that affect every single one of us, and it's the time we're listening to the most hokey shite on the radio and watching vacuous bullshit celebrities being vacuous bullshit celebrities and desperately trying to forget about everything. Which is fine, you know, but personally speaking, I can't do that.
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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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When even your fans are writing to tell you to get a life, you know you need to listen.
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If I could do just one thing to change the world, I'd make everyone Thom Yorke, and this would be paradise.
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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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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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If you're bored of the songs, you're bored of the songs. There's not much you can do.
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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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I'm horrified of leprechauns. I'm horrified that I might be leprechauns.
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I'll drown my beliefs. To have you be in peace.
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I once tried playing baseball but I started crying.
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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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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 not saying my fans are stupid, but I once left a cabbage onstage next to a harmonica and nobody noticed for three hours
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And then computers got to a point where you could just record directly into them. So when that happened, funny enough, I thought, Right, I'm going to learn how to do this because then I can understand that part.
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Time is running out for us But you just move the hands upon the clock You throw coins in the wishing well For us You just move your hands upon the wall
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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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Kid A is about an abortion. *laughs* It's about how our music is an abortion
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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 once wrote a song so beautiful that I myself couldn't sing it. It's called Plastic Government Cheese Swan, and it's about how the world is plastic and full of government cheese swans.
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My parents mistook me for a sack of potatoes so I sat in the corner of the kitchen for the first 13 years of my life. My birth name is Thom Potatoes.