Thom Yorke Quotes

I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world. They're just sitting there. I can hit them with a two by four.

I'm not a martyr, just a musician who dies for your sins. Oh, that's what a martyr is? Very well then, I am a martyr, if you insist.

My mother tried to abort me herself with a coathanger, hence my wobbly eye.

It's God's will that millions of people are gonna die this year because of some outmoded economic policies? No, it's not!

There's an upside to the digital thing from my point of view because I find that I have access to all this wacky, weird-ass dance-music stuff that I just can't go into a shop and buy on vinyl.

Have I told you I have cancer? It's a very special kind of cancer. Cancer of the soul.

The problem is, I cannot meditate. That's the one thing I can't do. That's the thing that's driving me nuts. I have a house by the sea, and I can sit and listen to the sound of the sea and eventually... but I can't really do it.

The hardest part about being in Radiohead is listening to my own music.

Hunting Bears is a complex song. A bear, as you know is another term for a chubby chaser. The guitar line is actually the sound of a fat man's thighs rubbing together as he approaches another lardy male for a night of sexual deviance.

The pointless snide remarks of hammerheaded sharks

Imagine? Yeah I can imagine John Lennon being dead.

I was abducted by aliens as a boy. Aliens is the name of a pedophile who lived in my alley.

I'm still not certain on the nature of the spork, whether it is a fork and a spoon, or a fork and a knife mixed together, or maybe a fork and a fork on top. Life is full of mysteries yeah man

My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.

Getting everything you want has nothing to do with anything.

I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo. What the hell am I doing here? I don't belong here.

2+2=5 wasn't intentional. I thought you carry a 1 every time there are two 2's in an equation. I'm not stupid, the mathematicians is stupid

The band name came about when the original vocalist died when a huge radio fell on his head. He trotted about for a while dancing with the radio on his head, before he died of asphyxiation and blood loss. *Laughs* it was hilarious

I once wrote a song so beautiful that I myself couldn't sing it. It's called Plastic Government Cheese Swan, and it's about how the world is plastic and full of government cheese swans.

I think artists can influence only through making music that challenges people, excites them and flips them out. Music that repeats what you know in ever-decreasing derivation, that's unchallenging and unstimulating, deadens our minds, our imagination and our ability to see beyond the hell we find ourselves in.

The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future.

It turns out I have clinical schizophrenia. The unborn chicken voices were telling me to kill my family.

My heart is a weatherballoon caught in an updraft of a chinese tax percentage, the tax percentages are unequivocaaaaaaaaaal, Unequivocaaaaaaaaal. This is the sort of lyrics you could never think of, loser. Here's a razorblade go cut yourself

My father beat me with a curtain rod when I was nine, (That was) the inspiration for Creep

I'm actually an athiest. That's kind of deep you must admit.

My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is.

We didn't start out to make a protest record at all. That would have been too shallow. As usual, it was simply a case of absorbing what's going on around us.

I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo.

My nickname in college was talentless midget who has a lazy eye is missing teeth resembles a shaved troll doll because I'm a talentless midget who has a lazy eye is missing teeth resembles a shaved troll dol

Well, my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won't any by the time... he's my age. That's kinda hard to deal with.

If I was made of chocolate I would melt myself in a car to ruin the interior.

There are a lot of things I cannot do, such as eat books and read chicken.

If Radiohead were a fruit we would be apples, because apples are festive

How come I end up where I started How come I end up where I belong... You used to be alright What happened?

I actually saw the loch ness monster when I was 9. She was big as a house. Want to know who the loch ness monster is? It's your obese mother. Burn mother****er

In America, there seems to be more focus on the idea that it's important to do things differently. In Britain, it's not an issue.

Sex is more than an act of pleasure, it’s the ability to be able to feel so close to a person, so connected, so comfortable that it’s almost breathtaking to the point you feel you can’t take it. And at this moment you’re a part of them.

i'M nOT thOM yorkE but a. ROBOT.

Anybody can make 'good' music. I make terrible music, which is what makes it so different, and therefore better.

I named my son Noah for the same reason Chris Martin named his apple: we're asses.

If I was an owl, I would peck your eyes out. Wow this lyric is ****ing brilliant.

Build gaps in your life. Pauses. Proper pauses.

If we replaced all of our guns with chicken sandwiches it would end all war immediately.

I think escape is sort of like coming to a show with ten thousand other people and responding to that moment. Sharing that moment - that's escape.

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

My father slapped my thighs with a variety of meats until I began to cry and sulked in the corner. I later became a musician

It is difficult to make political art work.

Sonic the hedgehog is a beautiful statement on capitalism. You spend your whole life collecting yellow rings and then hit one spike and lose them all. And there is a fat man who wants to kill you.