I often fake my death and then just show up at people's houses. They say 'that's a good one Thom' but I know maybe they don't really think it's a funny joke.

I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.

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

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.

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.

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

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