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I'm the next act Waiting in the wings I'm an animal Trapped in your hot car I am all of the days That you choose to ignore You are all I need You are all I need I'm in the middle of your picture Lying in the reeds.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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It's the Devil's way now, There is no way out, You can scream and you can shout, It is too late now.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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Ironically my brother died in a car accident shortly after Airbag was recorded. He's not an identical twin so I didn't care.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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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.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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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.
Nigel Timothy Godrich Atoms for Peace
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Space Jam is my favorite movie. Don't ask me why, it just is.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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I don't know why people called me Tom. My name is THUMB.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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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.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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I could blow bubbles. Bubbles would solve any dilemma we face. If bubbles were president there would be no war.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world. They're just sitting there. I can hit them with a two by four.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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Obviously, the duty of artists is there, but it's more an indictment of the political system that someone like Zinn views artists as the seers, idealizing them as the people responsible for inspiring change.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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I know I'm 38 but I insist that santa claus exists and he raped my mother when I was 9.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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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!
Nigel Timothy Godrich Atoms for Peace
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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.
Nigel Timothy Godrich Atoms for Peace
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The problem is, I cannot meditate. That's the one thing I can't do. That's the thing that's driving me nuts. I have a house by the sea, and I can sit and listen to the sound of the sea and eventually... but I can't really do it.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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There's a pervading sense of loneliness I've had since the day I was born. Maybe a lot of other people feel the same way, but I'm not about to run up and down the street asking everybody if they're as lonely as I am. I'd probably get locked up.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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I may be a tough fellow but I have a reflective side as well. Reflective as in I'll bash your head in with a ****ing mirror.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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I jumped in the river, what did I see? Black-eyed angels swam with me A moon full of stars and astral cars And all the figures I used to see All my lovers were there with me All my past and futures And we all went to heaven in a little row boat There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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My father slapped my thighs with a variety of meats until I began to cry and sulked in the corner. I later became a musician
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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If there are political programs on TV, yet it takes an artist to actually energize political debate, that tells you something really quite frightening about the level of the political debate happening on mainstream channels - right-wing-biased mothers.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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Isn't it strange how someone can be both human and divine at the same time? I am referring, of course, to myself.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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My nickname in high school was jack-o-lantern because I'm missing 9 teeth
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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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.
Nigel Timothy Godrich Atoms for Peace
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I'm listening to Aphex Twin. That makes me cultured and interesting.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
