Yorke Quotes & Sayings

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

I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. — 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

I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo — Thom Yorke

Well, my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won't any by the time ... he's my age. That's kinda hard to deal with. — Thom Yorke

I named my son Noah for the same reason Chris Martin named his apple: we're asses. — Thom Yorke

OK Computer? More like No Thank You Computers. They killed my father, and I hate them. — Thom Yorke

Being in a band turns you into a child and keeps you there. — Thom Yorke

If I weren't in Radiohead I'd be working at a grocery store, I'd be that creepy guy who lives in an efficiency apartment and collects salted, cured meats. — 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

I wear my pants on my upper torso to be abstract and different. — 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

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. — 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

If we replaced all of our guns with chicken sandwiches it would end all war immediately. — Thom Yorke

If Bono can release an album out of nowhere then so can I! — Thom Yorke

Life to your spirit is not about making a living. — Penelope V. Yorke

I won't live in a mostly Mexican neighborhood. I'm sorry I just won't do it. — Thom Yorke

The difference between me and Bono is that he's quite happy to go and flatter people to get what he wants and he's very good at it, but I just can't do it. I'd probably end up punching them in the face rather than shaking their hand, so it's best that I stay out of their way. I can't engage with that level of bullshit. Which is a shame, really, and in a way it would help if I could, but I just can't. I admire the fact that Bono can, and can walk away from it smelling of roses. — Thom Yorke

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 — 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

Open your mouth wide A universal sigh — Thom Yorke

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. — Thom Yorke

Don't get any big ideas, They're not gonna happen. — Thom Yorke

The hardest part about being in radiohead is being inside a giant head that is a radio. Ha ha, little english humour there, or is it a hammer? — Thom Yorke

Love is like a man who doesn't know his own strength: he means well, but sometimes he crushes you. — Christy Yorke

If I was made of chocolate I would melt myself in a car to ruin the interior. — Thom Yorke

Mephostopheles is the name of a male gigolo I knew. When he's reaching up to grab me, I suppose it's an erotic bit of poetry. — Thom Yorke

Sometimes the nicest thing to do with a guitar is just look at it. — 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

The band name came about when the original vocalist died when a huge radio fell on his head. He trotted about for a while dancing with the radio on his head, before he died of asphyxiation and blood loss. *Laughs* it was hilarious — 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

Radiohead is overrated. Thom Yorke's solo output, however, is brilliant. — Thom Yorke

The most successful people are those who are good at plan B. — James A. Yorke

The game is not over until it is. — Dwight Yorke

When I was born, my mother didn't know what to name me. Eventually she named me after Thom Yorke. — 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

So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls things, and go on doing their own things. — Thom Yorke

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 — Thom Yorke

In America, there seems to be more focus on the idea that it's important to do things differently. In Britain, it's not an issue. — 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

And if the world does turn, and if London burns, I'll be standing on the beach with my guitar. I want to be in a band, when I get to Heaven. Anyone can play guitar, and they won't be a nothing anymore ... — Thom Yorke

It's God's will that millions of people are gonna die this year because of some outmoded economic policies? No, it's not! — Thom Yorke

I don't like old friends talking to me like I'm a pop star, cos it makes me feel like I'm becoming two-dimensional. — Thom Yorke

Most of my dancing is actually convulsions from having to listen to my own music — 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

People construct a public face in order to deal with the conflicts that rage inside them. So — John Yorke

The allegations of me being a pedophile are spurious, at best. However I will admit that taking my knickers off in the park and having an Easter Egg hunt with those apple-cheeked four year olds was in my best interest and not theirs — Thom Yorke

Metaphorically I am made of chairs. It's a metaphor though. That means I am not actually made of the chairs. — Thom Yorke

It's maybe a good thing to try to make music that feels reassuring in some ways - something that's got a good feeling, a good vibe about it. — Thom Yorke

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

Bulletproof is about the fact that I was shot in the face and survived. Nah I'm joking that'd be grisly and awful. — Thom Yorke

I'm terrible at jigsaw puzzles. Other people solve the puzzle but I just keep trying to make the pieces that don't fit fit. I guess that's what makes me special, I try to assemble jigsaw puzzles incorrectly. — Thom Yorke

I guess I am narcisstic, but only in the sense that I am brilliant and tortured as well — Thom Yorke

I tied a bunch of balloons to a beach chair and tried to float up to heaven. *begins to weep* There's no heaven, and birds tried to kill me! *shrivels up* — Thom Yorke

Nobody wins the superbowl, I win the superbowl. I am the superbowl. — Thom Yorke

All of our saddest songs have somewhere in them at least a glimmer of resolve - Street Spirit has no resolve. It is the dark tunnel without the light at the end. — Thom Yorke

I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day. — 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

Without subtext you have a flat, linear world; everything is literal, everything spoken is meant. With subtext the writer is able to access the gap between language and thought, and — John Yorke

The only real difference between me and chocolate pudding is that I am not a black man. — Thom Yorke

Americans are ugly unwashed clods that live off of government cheese. If I could, I'd take every living American, grind them up into a fine paste and use that paste to feed the dolphins, because they are neglected by the evil Americans. — Thom Yorke

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

I ultimately decided that I couldn't beat it more than three times a day, (I) was just too drained and chapped. That's what Radiohead is about. You're just drained and chapped, down there. — Thom Yorke

If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history. — Thom Yorke

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. — 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

I'm baking stories, and singing cookies, oh the tonderous wimes! — Thom Yorke

There's the beautiful people and then there's the rest of us. — Thom Yorke

The Dell will continue to be a hard place to go and take points. — Dwight 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

I think escape is sort of like coming to a show with ten thousand other people and responding to that moment. Sharing that moment - that's escape. — Thom Yorke

I had a dream where my face was a hamburger. What the? — Thom Yorke

My parents mistook me for a sack of potatoes so I sat in the corner of the kitchen for the first 13 years of my life. My birth name is Thom Potatoes. — Thom Yorke

People sometimes say we take things too seriously, but it's the only way you'll get anywhere. — Thom Yorke

I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state. — 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

It's not racist if I like the race. But I don't like Asian people. — Thom Yorke

I think a lot of tunes can suffer from being so simple, so either they get over-complicated or their simplicity means the simple way to lay them down becomes the difficulty. — 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

Every ball that is kicked, Martin O'Neill will be literally kicking it — Dwight Yorke

I don't think I have a superiority complex. I have a "you're not Thom Yorke" complex. — Thom Yorke

The video of 'Paranoid Android' has been censored by MTV. They took all nipples out of the cartoon, but they had no problem with the scene in which a man cuts off his own arms and legs. — Thom Yorke

Lieutenant-Colonel Yorke told me you Torchwood people always take the extreme view. We have a saying in basic training: "If you hear hoof-beats, you look for horses, and not zebras".'

'You don't know the half of it,' Gwen said. 'In my job, if I hear hoof-beats, I expect to see unicorns. — Peter Anghelides

I'm glad I escaped the clutches of those evil gnomes ... I'm talking, of course, about Puerto Ricans. — Thom Yorke

I use various soaps and hand sanitizers in the shower. I shower maybe fifteen times a day, but Thom Yorke is never really clean *laughs*. — Thom Yorke

Rock music is, is a necessary evil, like beating my children with penny loafers — Thom Yorke

I recently enrolled at an elementary school and they accepted me. I am finally going to get revenge on those kids that beat me up as a boy, assuming they are still attending. — Thom Yorke

At the KFC there's, lot of black people there innit *laughs* — Thom Yorke

I lost my virginity to a pumpkin when I was 23. Back then I was convinced I was actually a Vegetable, hell, that's what the song is about. — Thom Yorke

Certainty is the mother of repose, and therefore the common law aims at certainty. — Philip Yorke, 1st Earl Of Hardwicke

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