Thom Yorke Quotes

There was a clown that tried to eat me as a boy, in my nightmares. Years later I found a clown for booking online who resembled him named Patches. Needless to say, Patches is dead now.

And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it.

Making music for Radiohead is like going to the bathroom, I'm just going to the bathroom constantly, and millions are watching me go to the bathroom.

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

People are born with certain faces, like my father was born with a face that people want to hit.

The more you try to erase me The more, the more The more that I appear

Why did the chicken cross the road? Because he's a goddamn chicken he doesn't know what the **** he's doing

I can be very drunk in a club in Oxford on a Monday night and some guy comes up to you and buys you a drink and says that the last record you made changed his life. That means something.

There's the beautiful people and then there's the rest of us.

There's a pervading sense of loneliness I've had since the day I was born. Maybe a lot of other people feel the same way, but I'm not about to run up and down the street asking everybody if they're as lonely as I am. I'd probably get locked up.

When people ask me for an autograph I usually ask for a pen and then stab them with it.

I'm the Legendary Radio Head

Time is running out for us But you just move the hands upon the clock You throw coins in the wishing well For us You just move your hands upon the wall

I am all the days that you choose to ignore.

Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political.

I use various soaps and hand sanitizers in the shower. I shower maybe fifteen times a day, but Thom Yorke is never really clean *laughs*.

Amnesiac was written to make fun of senior citizens with alzheimers. I hate them and I wish they'd die.

So how come it looks so beautiful? How come the moon falls from the sky?

I'm terrible at jigsaw puzzles. Other people solve the puzzle but I just keep trying to make the pieces that don't fit fit. I guess that's what makes me special, I try to assemble jigsaw puzzles incorrectly.

I don't even have children, it's just been an excuse to play jenga and hit softballs in my backyard with a box of laundry detergant wearing baby clothes.

If I had one wish I'd wish for a million wishes because I am clever.

I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world.

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

We're at a time when we are being presented with undeniable changes in the global climate and fundamental issues that affect every single one of us, and it's the time we're listening to the most hokey shite on the radio and watching vacuous bullshit celebrities being vacuous bullshit celebrities and desperately trying to forget about everything. Which is fine, you know, but personally speaking, I can't do that.

The thing I remember most about America is that it's silly. That can be quite a relief at times.

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.

I love listening to music with my mate. We don't do it often, but when we do we'll just sit there and lose our heads in it. Sooner or later he'll start saying something to the effect of "Hey, Thom, can you put in something else now?" but I'll just nod coldly and respond "not just yet". But after awhile, I'll finally budge. And that's when I crack a big smile and take out The Bends and put in Kid A. My friend just sighs and leaves the room, and I can't blame him. He's not ready for that leap yet.

Almost every song on OK Computer revolves around how I am afraid computers get up at night and attempt to choke me with their wires.*doesn't laugh*

I am the greatest thing to happen to black music.

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'll regularly just burst out into laughter at funerals, at the expense of the dead. What's the difference between a dead person and Thom Yorke? One is talented and the other is dead. **** you grandma

I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out.

One person can't change the world. But Thom Yorke can, because he's two people. Both of them are Thom Yorke.

I don't think I have a superiority complex. I have a "you're not Thom Yorke" complex.

Chicken Little change my life when I was younger. I had no idea chickens could talk *laughs*.

I often steal sandwiches, eat them, and put the container's back., with a signed autograph of my self in its place. It's my way of giving back to society.

15 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.

My name may be Thom Yorke, but only I can call me Thom Yorke.

Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think.

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

Thom Yorke has a beautiful brain

My only means of self defense is to wiggle my eye and feign being a salamander. It has saved my life but once I was partially eaten by a bald eagle who thought I was a salamander. Hence, my skills. Hence.

Space Jam is my favorite movie. Don't ask me why, it just is.

Treefingers is important, it's the point in which our protagonist crosses the icy tundra that is how to disappear completely to reach the island of Optimistic. But seriously, kill yourself.

At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour.

Radiohead is overrated. Thom Yorke's solo output, however, is brilliant.

I have multiple personalities, but, being a fairly uncreative individual, they are all Thom Yorke.

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.