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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
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 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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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'm a full grown man and I'm not tall enough to ride a rollercoaster. So I will sit on the teacups, eat my tea and biscuits and reminisce with the cheshire cat who lives in my head. Oh hello Mr. Cheshire, lovely weather this morning. Mr. Cheshire? Oh my god.
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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You do it to yourself, you do, And that's what really hurts, Is that you do it to yourself, Just you and no one else, You do it to yourself...
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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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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I accidentally produced a Willow Smith track!
Nigel Timothy Godrich Atoms for Peace
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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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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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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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The whole point of creating music for me is to give voice to things that aren't normally given voice to.
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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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
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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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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.
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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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'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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I'll drown my beliefs. To have you be in peace.
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
