Atoms for Peace Quotes
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There's nothing more boring than a rock'n'roll star. Someone who has been on the road for 10 years, expecting attention wherever he goes, drinking himself stupid, who is obnoxious, incoherent, uncreative, and has a massive ego. There's nothing more pointless.
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Have I told you I have cancer? It's a very special kind of cancer. Cancer of the soul.
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We weren't listening to guitar bands, we were thoroughly ashamed of being a guitar band. So we bought loads of keyboards and learned how to use them, and when we got bored we went back to guitars.
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Where are you sleeping tonight? Face down in the mud? That's a British tradition: Take acid and fall asleep in some field.
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Like a fat raccoon rummaging through the garbage, that how I eat. Like a f-king fat raccoon.
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Cigarrettes make you look cool
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Mephostopheles is the name of a male gigolo I knew. When he's reaching up to grab me, I suppose it's an erotic bit of poetry.
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Do not tell me what I can and cannot do. I'll be as asian as I want to (Stretches his eyes in a racist manner).
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It's maybe a good thing to try to make music that feels reassuring in some ways - something that's got a good feeling, a good vibe about it.
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I see fat kids on the street all the time and I give them free radiohead t-shirts with bullseyes on them. Later when I see them wearing the t-shirts I shoot at them with bb guns while riding a very large dog and singing kicking squealing gucci little piggy over and over
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Have you ever seen any member of radiohead aside from me in public? Do they interact or 'lift' objects? Holograms, all of them. I created them in 1991 using my massive brainpower. Even pitchforkmedia is a product of my brilliant imagination.
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Enjoy it - making music is a wonderful way to spend your life.. but do it for the love before a career... it's getting so unforgiving out there - I hate to think of the obstacles in the way now for new artists.. if you love it and you are good, you will be fine.. but be prepared to have to work hard and don't judge your success by other peoples opinions.. have self belief.
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I'm Chris Martin with down syndrome
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You are my centre when I spin away.
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I'm not a martyr, just a musician who dies for your sins. Oh, that's what a martyr is? Very well then, I am a martyr, if you insist.
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I guess I am narcisstic, but only in the sense that I am brilliant and tortured as well
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When I was born, my mother didn't know what to name me. Eventually she named me after Thom Yorke.
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How come I end up where I started How come I end up where I belong... You used to be alright What happened?
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What happens a lot with songwriting is that a melody or rhythm or something stays with you like catching a cold. And during that time what happens is that I can then fit things on to it, it all fits and glues together. Sometimes it's crazy cos it can almost be anything. But if you catch the cold then the nonsense makes sense. It's like you're getting beamed it, like with a ouija board and something's pushing your hand. It's not a pleasant experience necessarily.
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When people ask me for an autograph I usually ask for a pen and then stab them with it.
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I actually saw the loch ness monster when I was 9. She was big as a house. Want to know who the loch ness monster is? It's your obese mother. Burn mother****er
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What's the difference between Thom Yorke and a pizza? Pizza's not as cheesy and delicious as Thom Yorke.
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Sometimes when you get an opportunity to appropriate your work, or use whatever collateral you have, for something good, you think, "Well, yeah, you should do this." You're not in any way qualified to do it, but I was so sick of hearing so many unqualified people say that global warming doesn't exist, I thought, "Well, I'm no less qualified than they are, so I can deal with doing it."
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Bulletproof is about the fact that I was shot in the face and survived. Nah I'm joking that'd be grisly and awful.