Thomas Edward Yorke Quotes
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I'd go onstage doing this thing, trying to fill this arena that I can't fill because I don't understand what this is. It's like you're given a job that's beyond you. And it's taken me years to realize what works in those big situations.
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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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I can be very drunk in a club in Oxford on a Monday night and some guy comes up to you and buys you a drink and says that the last record you made changed his life. That means something.
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I don't even have children, it's just been an excuse to play jenga and hit softballs in my backyard with a box of laundry detergant wearing baby clothes.
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The thing I remember most about America is that it's silly. That can be quite a relief at times.
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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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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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My name may be Thom Yorke, but only I can call me Thom Yorke.
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The whole point of creating music for me is to give voice to things that aren't normally given voice to.
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If you want to be entertained, go and see Hanson.
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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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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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I'm absolutely terrified that people can get into cars. It's like the car is a face, and the headlight is eyes, and when you open the car door it's like you're climbing into the ears. (I cannot) be inside a giant rolling robot head.
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Technology is killing us. We think it's helping us but it's killing us. Don't ask me why because I don't have the time or the attention span to complete that thought. Now let's all hold hands and draw spider monkeys.
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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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I'm achingly aware of my own limitations as both part of the human race and as an individual. I'm just, casting this out that, maybe, I'm not so perfect as is the affront I oft put on. After all, the lyric is 'I wish I was special'. I truly just want to be loved and accepted, I think, like all humans.
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I'm actually an athiest. That's kind of deep you must admit.
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Thom Yorke has a beautiful brain
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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.
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If I were a bottle of wine, my name would be Thom Cork
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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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I love listening to music with my mate. We don't do it often, but when we do we'll just sit there and lose our heads in it. Sooner or later he'll start saying something to the effect of "Hey, Thom, can you put in something else now?" but I'll just nod coldly and respond "not just yet". But after awhile, I'll finally budge. And that's when I crack a big smile and take out The Bends and put in Kid A. My friend just sighs and leaves the room, and I can't blame him. He's not ready for that leap yet.
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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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While you make pretty speeches I'm being cut to shreds You feed me to the lions A delicate balance.