I don't think young people are as demoralized as the media and government would like us to think. The obvious sign of that is how strong and how close personal connections are and how much people are able to build a life for themselves, despite all this stuff that's been thrown at them.

If I were a bottle of wine, my name would be Thom Cork

If the media spotlight affects my work or represses what I want to say in the future, then it is bad.

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.

I wanted to live with the ****ing manta rays, but they banned me from Sea World.

Most Radiohead songs are actually REM songs, I just have a mentally ill child read the lyrics aloud and then I change the melodies a bit.

Maybe I'm not the gloaming witches smart, but at least I'm not our stupid liffey hamburger mongrels