It's hard being Thom Yorke. You have to get up every morning and look at that face and not shoot at it with a gun.

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

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.

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

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

I suppose one thing that's always fascinated me is that thing where you're a band and you want to start recording and you get a label and a producer, and then there's that pressure to go out there and really toil.

I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.