Thom Yorke Quotes & Sayings

So how come it looks so beautiful? How come the moon falls from the sky? — Thom Yorke

Space Jam is my favorite movie. Don't ask me why, it just is. — Thom Yorke

I once tried playing baseball but I started crying. — Thom Yorke

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom. — Thom Yorke

Women's underwear section it's like Narnia's wardrobe for my erotic delights. — Thom Yorke

Getting everything you want has nothing to do with anything. — Thom Yorke

I'm the Legendary Radio Head — Thom Yorke

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 — Thom Yorke

I don't really think of most non-English as people, more or less indigenous squirrels that I fancy to kick around with my snakeskin French Persian Boots — Thom Yorke

I think sometimes all the charities are doing is mopping up the blood. It's a shame. — Thom Yorke

If I could be any famous person, I'd be John Wilkes Booth, because I'd love to shoot Abraham Lincoln in the face — Thom Yorke

I didn't ask to be Thom Yorke. Thom Yorke asked to be me. — Thom Yorke

The head of state Has called for me by name But I don't have time for him It's gonna be a glorious day I feel my luck could change — Thom Yorke

The joke is that U2's new record only looked like a virus. Enjoy mining bitcoins for me losers. — Thom Yorke

I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests. — Thom Yorke

One little leak becomes a lake, Says the tiny voice in my earpiece — Thom Yorke

I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out. — Thom Yorke

I see fat kids on the street all the time and I give them free radiohead t-shirts with bullseyes on them. Later when I see them wearing the t-shirts I shoot at them with bb guns while riding a very large dog and singing kicking squealing gucci little piggy over and over — Thom Yorke

My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is. — Thom Yorke

We didn't start out to make a protest record at all. That would have been too shallow. As usual, it was simply a case of absorbing what's going on around us. — Thom Yorke

Treefingers is important, it's the point in which our protagonist crosses the icy tundra that is how to disappear completely to reach the island of Optimistic. But seriously, kill yourself. — Thom Yorke

There's nothing more boring than a rock'n'roll star. Someone who has been on the road for 10 years, expecting attention wherever he goes, drinking himself stupid, who is obnoxious, incoherent, uncreative, and has a massive ego. There's nothing more pointless. — Thom Yorke

Can you imagine a world in which the letter O does not exist? My name would be Thm Yrke. Think about that. — Thom Yorke

Chicken Little change my life when I was younger. I had no idea chickens could talk *laughs*. — Thom Yorke

I am all the days that you choose to ignore. — Thom Yorke

I'll regularly just burst out into laughter at funerals, at the expense of the dead. What's the difference between a dead person and Thom Yorke? One is talented and the other is dead. **** you grandma — Thom Yorke

I don't think young people are as demoralized as the media and government would like us to think. The obvious sign of that is how strong and how close personal connections are and how much people are able to build a life for themselves, despite all this stuff that's been thrown at them. — Thom Yorke

I once got hit with a taser at a concert and everyone thought I was dancing. Now I have to do that dance, at every show for the rest of my life, or admit that a taser can damage the Thom Yorke — Thom Yorke

I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world. — Thom Yorke

If you want to be entertained, go and see Hanson. — Thom Yorke

The concept of Kid A? How about the concept of I kick your ****ing ass — Thom Yorke

At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour. — Thom Yorke

I'll drown my beliefs. To have you be in peace. — Thom Yorke

Kid A is about an abortion. *laughs* It's about how our music is an abortion — Thom Yorke

Anybody can make 'good' music. I make terrible music, which is what makes it so different, and therefore better. — Thom Yorke

If you forget about the money issue for just a minute, if it's possible to do that - because these are people's livelihoods we're talking about - and you look at Internet in terms of the most amazing broadcasting network ever built, then it's completely different. In some ways, that's the best way of looking at it. — Thom Yorke

Where are you sleeping tonight? Face down in the mud? That's a British tradition: Take acid and fall asleep in some field. — Thom Yorke

I'll take a quiet life And a handshake of carbon monoxide And no alarms and no surprises — Thom Yorke

2+2=5 wasn't intentional. I thought you carry a 1 every time there are two 2's in an equation. I'm not stupid, the mathematicians is stupid — Thom Yorke

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. — Thom Yorke

Yes I usually make my kids eat their veggie chops and watch my concerts in dead silence. If they ask to watch spongebob squarepants I usually do something volatile like make them eat a yellow sponge with googly eyes on it. I hit them quite a bit, but then again I blame the condom manufacturing government for forcing me to birth them. — Thom Yorke

I'm achingly aware of my own limitations as both part of the human race and as an individual. I'm just, casting this out that, maybe, I'm not so perfect as is the affront I oft put on. After all, the lyric is 'I wish I was special'. I truly just want to be loved and accepted, I think, like all humans. — Thom Yorke

I could blow bubbles. Bubbles would solve any dilemma we face. If bubbles were president there would be no war. — Thom Yorke

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. — Thom Yorke

Almost every song on OK Computer revolves around how I am afraid computers get up at night and attempt to choke me with their wires.*doesn't laugh* — Thom Yorke

Hunting Bears is a complex song. A bear, as you know is another term for a chubby chaser. The guitar line is actually the sound of a fat man's thighs rubbing together as he approaches another lardy male for a night of sexual deviance. — Thom Yorke

What the hell am I doing here? — Thom Yorke

Thom Yorke has a beautiful brain — Thom Yorke

Immerse your soul in love. — Thom Yorke

And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it. — Thom Yorke

Are you such a dreamer To put the world to rights? I'll stay home forever Where two and two always makes a five I'll lay down the tracks Sandbag and hide January has April's showers And two and two always makes a five It's the devil's way now There is no way out You can SCREAM and you can shout It is too late now Because ... You have not been Payin' attention! Payin' attention! Payin' attention! Payin' attention! You have not been paying attention! — Thom Yorke

Amnesiac was written to make fun of senior citizens with alzheimers. I hate them and I wish they'd die. — Thom Yorke

The pointless snide remarks of hammerheaded sharks — Thom Yorke

I may have found the cure for cancer, and I think it might be Thom Yorke Serum. — Thom Yorke

I love listening to music with my mate. We don't do it often, but when we do we'll just sit there and lose our heads in it. Sooner or later he'll start saying something to the effect of "Hey, Thom, can you put in something else now?" but I'll just nod coldly and respond "not just yet". But after awhile, I'll finally budge. And that's when I crack a big smile and take out The Bends and put in Kid A. My friend just sighs and leaves the room, and I can't blame him. He's not ready for that leap yet. — Thom Yorke

My nickname in high school was jack-o-lantern because I'm missing 9 teeth — Thom Yorke

Open your mouth wide A universal sigh — Thom Yorke

People in bands don't have the kind of conversations people might think they have. The best things about being in a band are the things that are unsaid. — Thom Yorke

We don't have to stand on a soap-box and preach because hopefully we're channelling it through the new record. — Thom Yorke

We weren't listening to guitar bands, we were thoroughly ashamed of being a guitar band. So we bought loads of keyboards and learned how to use them, and when we got bored we went back to guitars. — Thom Yorke

It's easy to be miserable. Being happy is tougher - and cooler. — Thom Yorke

We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everybody even more, so we decided to stick with the songs we picked. — Thom Yorke

If you Americans aren't from the stone age then explain to me how your president is a ****ing pterodactyl — Thom Yorke

I agree with whoever said Spice Girls are soft port. They're the antichrist. — Thom Yorke

I believe that any great work of art is, in itself, a form of resistance against a sense of powerlessness. — Thom Yorke

I'm celibate. It's not that I'm a religious or moral person or anything, it's just, if you aren't ****ing Thom Yorke, what's the point? Actually, just kidding, Thom Yorke and I **** all the time. Hehehe. Had you. — Thom Yorke

It's not so much that I'm an atheist so much as the sneaking suspicion that I myself may be god — Thom Yorke

There's an upside to the digital thing from my point of view because I find that I have access to all this wacky, weird-ass dance-music stuff that I just can't go into a shop and buy on vinyl. — Thom Yorke

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. — Thom Yorke

I'm such a tease and you're such a flirt Routines and schedules A drug that'll kill you — Thom Yorke

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. — Thom Yorke

What's the difference between Thom Yorke and a pizza? Pizza's not as cheesy and delicious as Thom Yorke. — Thom Yorke

I've tried crowd surfing but the radiating light that surrounds me kept sending me floating into the heavens. Goddamn I'm beautiful — Thom Yorke

Every Christmas people are so nice to me, they think I am Little Tim from A Christmas Story. But I'm not. *smiles* — Thom Yorke

I cannot read a fortune cookie without breaking down and crying. I am sensitive. — Thom Yorke

Jumped in the river, what did I see? Black-eyed angels swam with me A moonful 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 — Thom Yorke

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. — Thom Yorke

In an interstellar burst I am back to save the universe In a fast German car I'm amazed that I survived An airbag saved my life — Thom Yorke

You are my centre when I spin away. — Thom Yorke

When I was four I read the story of horton hears a who and I cried. I wanted to eat that elephant. — Thom Yorke

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. — Thom Yorke

Do not tell me what I can and cannot do. I'll be as asian as I want to (Stretches his eyes in a racist manner). — Thom Yorke

It annoys me how pretty my voice is ... that sounds incredibly immodest, but it annoys me how polite it can sound when perhaps what I'm singing is deeply acidic. — Thom Yorke

One person can't change the world. But Thom Yorke can, because he's two people. Both of them are Thom Yorke. — Thom Yorke

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. — Thom Yorke

I have multiple personalities, but, being a fairly uncreative individual, they are all Thom Yorke. — Thom Yorke

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. — Thom Yorke

I could not extrapolate some emotion from any song after 1997 so I bought a drum machine and popped pills. The pink ones make me funny like elephants! — Thom Yorke

I think what makes people ill a lot of the time is the belief that your thoughts are concrete and that you're responsible for your thoughts. Whereas actually - the way I see it - your thoughts are what the wind blows through your mind. — Thom Yorke

My nickname in grade school was salamander because I have a lazy eye — Thom Yorke

I was abducted by aliens as a boy. Aliens is the name of a pedophile who lived in my alley. — Thom Yorke

I'm terrified of lasagna. I think it was to eat ME! — Thom Yorke

Have you ever seen any member of radiohead aside from me in public? Do they interact or 'lift' objects? Holograms, all of them. I created them in 1991 using my massive brainpower. Even pitchforkmedia is a product of my brilliant imagination. — Thom Yorke

The only thing worse than Radiohead fans is everything else except me — Thom Yorke

Most Radiohead songs are actually REM songs, I just have a mentally ill child read the lyrics aloud and then I change the melodies a bit. — Thom Yorke

How come I end up where I started? How come I end up where I went wrong? You used to be alright What happened? — Thom Yorke

Have I told you I have cancer? It's a very special kind of cancer. Cancer of the soul. — Thom Yorke

When I go forwards, you go backwards And somewhere we will meet — Thom Yorke

Sometimes we and the members of Coldplay have an orgy together, (Martin) insists we don't invite any women, but I always invite a few. Usually I sing Fake Plastic Trees while he reams me from behind *Laughs* It wears me out *laughs*. — Thom Yorke

The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future. — Thom Yorke