Atoms for Peace Quotes
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Anybody can make 'good' music. I make terrible music, which is what makes it so different, and therefore better.
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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.
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Drying up in conversation You will be the one who cannot talk All your insides fall to pieces You just sit there wishing you could still make love.
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I don't even have children, it's just been an excuse to play jenga and hit softballs in my backyard with a box of laundry detergant wearing baby clothes.
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You cannot kickstart a dead horse
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When even your fans are writing to tell you to get a life, you know you need to listen.
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We're at a time when we are being presented with undeniable changes in the global climate and fundamental issues that affect every single one of us, and it's the time we're listening to the most hokey shite on the radio and watching vacuous bullshit celebrities being vacuous bullshit celebrities and desperately trying to forget about everything. Which is fine, you know, but personally speaking, I can't do that.
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They love me like I was a brother They protect me, listen to me They dug me my very own garden Gave me sunshine, made me happy Nice dream, nice dream Nice dream
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I once tried playing baseball but I started crying.
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My name may be Thom Yorke, but only I can call me Thom Yorke.
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If I were a bottle of wine, my name would be Thom Cork
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The thing I remember most about America is that it's silly. That can be quite a relief at times.
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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.
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If I could do just one thing to change the world, I'd make everyone Thom Yorke, and this would be paradise.
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Thom Yorke has a beautiful brain
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Time is running out for us But you just move the hands upon the clock You throw coins in the wishing well For us You just move your hands upon the wall
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I got into the music business thinking it was really radical, that it wasn't really a business at all, that it was a lot of people being artistic and creative. Not true, and it made me very depressed.
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The only thing more difficult than being a God is being Thom Yorke. Thom Yorke has all these responsibilities, to save the planet. To save the world. To redeem Thom Yorke.
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My father beat me with a curtain rod when I was nine, (That was) the inspiration for Creep
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Technology is killing us. We think it's helping us but it's killing us. Don't ask me why because I don't have the time or the attention span to complete that thought. Now let's all hold hands and draw spider monkeys.
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And then computers got to a point where you could just record directly into them. So when that happened, funny enough, I thought, Right, I'm going to learn how to do this because then I can understand that part.
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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.
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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.
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The whole point of creating music for me is to give voice to things that aren't normally given voice to.