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When even your fans are writing to tell you to get a life, you know you need to listen.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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I tell you what's really ridiculous--going into a bookstore and there's all these books about yourself. In a way, it feels like you're already dead.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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If you're bored of the songs, you're bored of the songs. There's not much you can do.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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I accidentally produced a Willow Smith track!
Nigel Timothy Godrich Atoms for Peace
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My father beat me with a curtain rod when I was nine, (That was) the inspiration for Creep
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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While you make pretty speeches I'm being cut to shreds You feed me to the lions A delicate balance.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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I hate to sound self absorbed, but I'm just going to cast out this pearl of wisdom, if I could give the whole world cancer and kill them and be the last man on earth it would be a sign that god loves me especially.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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If I could be any animal I would be a pony because then I could have sex with ponies. Pony, what a funny word. Say it, pony. PO-KNEE. Now ah've made myself giddy with delight. Towards the ponies *laughs*
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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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.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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Rock music is, is a necessary evil, like beating my children with penny loafers
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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I'm not saying my fans are stupid, but I once left a cabbage onstage next to a harmonica and nobody noticed for three hours
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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Metaphorically I am made of chairs. It's a metaphor though. That means I am not actually made of the chairs.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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Kid A is about an abortion. *laughs* It's about how our music is an abortion
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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People sometimes say we take things too seriously, but it's the only way you'll get anywhere.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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I'll drown my beliefs. To have you be in peace.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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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.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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Anybody can make 'good' music. I make terrible music, which is what makes it so different, and therefore better.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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I have this thing about my own voice on record. No matter what I sing, it sounds really serious, and I sound self loathing or whatever, which was just driving me nuts because that's not what I was writing.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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I'm still not certain on the nature of the spork, whether it is a fork and a spoon, or a fork and a knife mixed together, or maybe a fork and a fork on top. Life is full of mysteries yeah man
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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My name may be Thom Yorke, but only I can call me Thom Yorke.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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I named my son Noah for the same reason Chris Martin named his apple: we're asses.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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My only means of self defense is to wiggle my eye and feign being a salamander. It has saved my life but once I was partially eaten by a bald eagle who thought I was a salamander. Hence, my skills. Hence.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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In an interstellar burst, I am back to save the universe. In a deep deep sleep of the innocent, I am born again. In a fast German car, I'm amazed that I survived, An airbag saved my life...
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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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.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
