Atoms for Peace Quotes
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You can't make an egg without frying an egg
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The hardest part about being in Radiohead is listening to my own music.
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It's easy to be miserable. Being happy is tougher - and cooler.
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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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The biggest shock of your life is when you first make a record and go to a show and then people start singing the words. Because it occurs to you that they've listened to it!
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Remember that Cosby show where he harrassed the children? Well I put on a little suit and because I am so small they invited me on but nobody was laughing at my jokes. I guess I'm just, too, particularly smart for them.
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I think escape is sort of like coming to a show with ten thousand other people and responding to that moment. Sharing that moment - that's escape.
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I have multiple personalities, but, being a fairly uncreative individual, they are all Thom Yorke.
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It's not racist if I like the race. But I don't like Asian people.
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I'm the Legendary Radio Head
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Don't judge your success by other peoples opinions. Have self belief.
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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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Yeah, after making Pablo Honey, we started experimenting with cloning myself in order to double the band's creative energy. However, the experiment was a failure, and the defective Thom Yorke clone escaped. And formed a band called Muse.
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Sometimes I stand in store windows and pretend to be a mannequin. People are like 'hey, that mannequin looks alot like thom yorke' Then I start to sing The Gloaming and lurch toward them and they run off horrified.
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Look at that fat kid, in the audience. You want some pie you little fatty? I strongly dislike fat kids. Security, please remove him, that fat kid, over there, by the pies.
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If you love music and you are good in it, you will be fine. But be prepared to have to work hard.
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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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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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Electronic music is really weird right, because it is bleeding into the mainstream, but, at the same time, it's fashion.
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I want to be part of the human race I want to live, breathe.
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The only real difference between me and chocolate pudding is that I am not a black man.
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Musicians are like politicians. They're the last people who should be making music, just like politicians are the last people who should be running things.
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People are born with certain faces, like my father was born with a face that people want to hit.
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I would rather do things that I really love with people that I love working with, and to be able to extend that and go and play, it's great. I feel very fortunate.