I think artists can influence only through making music that challenges people, excites them and flips them out. Music that repeats what you know in ever-decreasing derivation, that's unchallenging and unstimulating, deadens our minds, our imagination and our ability to see beyond the hell we find ourselves in.
Thom Yorke15 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.
Thom YorkeTo protest, I stood in the place of a waste receptacle and opened my mouth. That's how I lost my virginity *laughs*
Thom YorkeMy father slapped my thighs with a variety of meats until I began to cry and sulked in the corner. I later became a musician
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