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.

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.

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

If I could do just one thing to change the world, I'd make everyone Thom Yorke, and this would be paradise.

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.

Someone once asked me how the universe was created, I told him it all began with Pablo Honey

I am the greatest thing to happen to black music.