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I think what makes people ill a lot of the time is the belief that your thoughts are concrete and that you're responsible for your thoughts. Whereas actually - the way I see it - your thoughts are what the wind blows through your mind.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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It's God's will that millions of people are gonna die this year because of some outmoded economic policies? No, it's not!
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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I'm baking stories, and singing cookies, oh the tonderous wimes!
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There are a lot of things I cannot do, such as eat books and read chicken.
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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."
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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Almost every song on OK Computer revolves around how I am afraid computers get up at night and attempt to choke me with their wires.*doesn't laugh*
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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I've tried crowd surfing but the radiating light that surrounds me kept sending me floating into the heavens. Goddamn I'm beautiful
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The allegations of me being a pedophile are spurious, at best. However I will admit that taking my knickers off in the park and having an Easter Egg hunt with those apple-cheeked four year olds was in my best interest and not theirs
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I ultimately decided that I couldn't beat it more than three times a day, (I) was just too drained and chapped. That's what Radiohead is about. You're just drained and chapped, down there.
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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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I suppose one thing that's always fascinated me is that thing where you're a band and you want to start recording and you get a label and a producer, and then there's that pressure to go out there and really toil.
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I don't really think of most non-English as people, more or less indigenous squirrels that I fancy to kick around with my snakeskin French Persian Boots
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I was abducted by aliens as a boy. Aliens is the name of a pedophile who lived in my alley.
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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.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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You are my centre when I spin away.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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I'll take a quiet life, A handshake of carbon monoxide. No alarms and no surprises...
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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Radiohead is overrated. Thom Yorke's solo output, however, is brilliant.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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The only thing worse than Radiohead fans is everything else except me
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It's a fine line between writing something with genuine emotional impact and turning into little idiots feeling sorry for ourselves and playing stadium rock.
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The concept of Kid A? How about the concept of I kick your ****ing ass
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Why did the chicken cross the road? Because he's a goddamn chicken he doesn't know what the **** he's doing
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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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Build gaps in your life. Pauses. Proper pauses.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
