Thom Yorke Quotes

I want to be alone and I want people to notice me — both at the same time.

I think sometimes all the charities are doing is mopping up the blood. It’s a shame.

And true love waits In haunted attics And true love lives On lollipops and crisps

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

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

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.

I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.

It's easy to be miserable. Being happy is tougher - and cooler.

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

I can't wait to die so I can be a skeleton and play my chest like a xylophone.

I became a vegan because I'm better than you

If I were to be any celebrity, I'd be Chris Martin. I've always wondered what it would be like to be jealous of Thom Yorke.

Hungry Hungry Hippos is so depressing. You continuously chomp away at those balls and you are alone and it's your birthday.'

Like a fat raccoon rummaging through the garbage, that how I eat. Like a f-king fat raccoon.

If you want to be entertained, go and see Hanson.

I am all the days that you choose to ignore.

The only real difference between me and chocolate pudding is that I am not a black man.

Trying to find my flaws is like trying to find a black person at one of our concerts

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.

Sometimes the nicest thing to do with a guitar is just look at it.

Can you imagine a world in which the letter O does not exist? My name would be Thm Yrke. Think about that.

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

It's hard being Thom Yorke. You have to get up every morning and look at that face and not shoot at it with a gun.

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.

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

Your fantasies are unlikely. But beautiful.

We weren't listening to guitar bands, we were thoroughly ashamed of being a guitar band. So we bought loads of keyboards and learned how to use them, and when we got bored we went back to guitars.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 bought a blimp just so I could get a bunch of wankers excited over nothing, what did you do with your weekend?

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 tied a bunch of balloons to a beach chair and tried to float up to heaven. *begins to weep* There's no heaven, and birds tried to kill me! *shrivels up*

It's impossible being me, I radiate a glow that makes others turn and grimace in horror as if staring into the sun.

You'll go to Hell For what your Dirty mind is thinking.

I'm listening to Aphex Twin. That makes me cultured and interesting.

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

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

I've been reading a book lately. That book is Thom Yorke, and the conclusion is that he's brilliant.

I recently enrolled at an elementary school and they accepted me. I am finally going to get revenge on those kids that beat me up as a boy, assuming they are still attending.

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

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

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

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

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.

I'm not saying my fans are stupid, but I once left a cabbage onstage next to a harmonica and nobody noticed for three hours