Thom Yorke Quotes

Rock music is, is a necessary evil, like beating my children with penny loafers

you have not been / paying attention

They love me like I was a brother They protect me, listen to me They dug me my very own garden Gave me sunshine, made me happy Nice dream, nice dream Nice dream

In November I'll be releasing my new solo record, entitled 'Box Of Bees'. There's no music, it's just a box full of live bees. The deluxe edition comes with more bees.

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

I'm not taking things quite so seriously as before. Especially myself.

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.

Whenever I meet a beauty, I escape or hide in the corner.

I've been working hard on a new song, it's titled "Frozen Piggy Pudding". It's about how the government is full of pigs who eat pudding all day. Oh look a frisbee, allo' govna.

Alot of my lyrics are about beating my children. 'Hit the bottom and escape' is a cry for help. oh god someone stop me

I don't write lyrics, the lyrics write Thom Yorke

Immerse your soul in love.

There's nothing more boring than a rock'n'roll star. Someone who has been on the road for 10 years, expecting attention wherever he goes, drinking himself stupid, who is obnoxious, incoherent, uncreative, and has a massive ego. There's nothing more pointless.

The concept of Kid A? How about the concept of I kick your ****ing ass

The joke is that U2's new record only looked like a virus. Enjoy mining bitcoins for me losers.

My big problem with corporate structure is this bizarre sense of loyalty you're supposed to feel -- towards what is basically a virus. It grows or dies, like any virus. And you use it for your own selfish ends." - source

You are my centre when I spin away.

This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer's block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper information about what's going on has really helped.

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

I hate cars. They are so loud, and ugly, and full of toxic exhaust, like radiohead fans.

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.

The video of 'Paranoid Android' has been censored by MTV. They took all nipples out of the cartoon, but they had no problem with the scene in which a man cuts off his own arms and legs.

Every Christmas people are so nice to me, they think I am Little Tim from A Christmas Story. But I'm not. *smiles*

OK Computer? More like No Thank You Computers. They killed my father, and I hate them.

People sometimes say we take things too seriously, but it's the only way you'll get anywhere.

I'm banned from Middlebrook elementary for telling dirty jokes to the janitor. The janitor! He cleans up dirt for a living.

What's the difference between Thom Yorke and a pizza? Pizza's not as cheesy and delicious as Thom Yorke.

I won't live in a mostly Mexican neighborhood. I'm sorry I just won't do it.

So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls things, and go on doing their own things.

Occasionally I'll just pull out a rifle and shoot one of my audience members. So far there have been no complaints filed.

Look at that fat kid, in the audience. You want some pie you little fatty? I strongly dislike fat kids. Security, please remove him, that fat kid, over there, by the pies.

One little leak becomes a lake, Says the tiny voice in my earpiece

I'm terrified of lasagna. I think it was to eat ME!

I don't know why people called me Tom. My name is THUMB.

Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope.

Yeah, after making Pablo Honey, we started experimenting with cloning myself in order to double the band's creative energy. However, the experiment was a failure, and the defective Thom Yorke clone escaped. And formed a band called Muse.

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

Isn't it strange how someone can be both human and divine at the same time? I am referring, of course, to myself.

Nobody wins the superbowl, I win the superbowl. I am the superbowl.

I may be a tough fellow but I have a reflective side as well. Reflective as in I'll bash your head in with a ****ing mirror.

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.

I'm celibate. It's not that I'm a religious or moral person or anything, it's just, if you aren't ****ing Thom Yorke, what's the point? Actually, just kidding, Thom Yorke and I **** all the time. Hehehe. Had you.

It's not so much that I'm an atheist so much as the sneaking suspicion that I myself may be god

The allegations of me being a pedophile are spurious, at best. However I will admit that taking my knickers off in the park and having an Easter Egg hunt with those apple-cheeked four year olds was in my best interest and not theirs

Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job.

I don’t see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right-wing, and loyal to the political framework and it’s corporate interests.

My parents mistook me for a sack of potatoes so I sat in the corner of the kitchen for the first 13 years of my life. My birth name is Thom Potatoes.

If there are political programs on TV, yet it takes an artist to actually energize political debate, that tells you something really quite frightening about the level of the political debate happening on mainstream channels - right-wing-biased mothers.