Thom Yorke Quotes

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.

Getting everything you want has nothing to do with anything.

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

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

I'll take a quiet life, A handshake of carbon monoxide. No alarms and no surprises...

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.

I sometimes have birthday parties for the kids in my neighborhood and then pretend to suggest that I am going to molest them to the parents. It's a hilarious prank even though I am not a paedophile.

Bulletproof is about the fact that I was shot in the face and survived. Nah I'm joking that'd be grisly and awful.

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

It's not racist if I like the race. But I don't like Asian people.

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.

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

The society, is, a dishwasher, where all the water, is, dead chipmunk blood. God I'm brilliant.

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.

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.

I once got hit with a taser at a concert and everyone thought I was dancing. Now I have to do that dance, at every show for the rest of my life, or admit that a taser can damage the Thom Yorke

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

I guess I am narcisstic, but only in the sense that I am brilliant and tortured as well

Our merchandised may be over priced, but I think it's reasonable considering I only want more money.

I am the greatest thing to happen to black music.

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

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

The head of state Has called for me by name But I don't have time for him It's gonna be a glorious day I feel my luck could change

You are my centre when I spin away.

If you don't trust everybody on stage with you, then you're in trouble.

I'm Chris Martin with down syndrome

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

The only thing more difficult than being a God is being Thom Yorke. Thom Yorke has all these responsibilities, to save the planet. To save the world. To redeem 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.

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

Ironically my brother died in a car accident shortly after Airbag was recorded. He's not an identical twin so I didn't care.

You cannot kickstart a dead horse

I could not extrapolate some emotion from any song after 1997 so I bought a drum machine and popped pills. The pink ones make me funny like elephants!

Where are you sleeping tonight? Face down in the mud? That's a British tradition: Take acid and fall asleep in some field.

Cigarrettes make you look cool

I cannot read a fortune cookie without breaking down and crying. I am sensitive.

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

You can't make an egg without frying an egg

If I could be any famous person, I'd be John Wilkes Booth, because I'd love to shoot Abraham Lincoln in the face

Women's underwear section it's like Narnia's wardrobe for my erotic delights.

Is Thom Yorke there? Oh he is? Well then how the can I be Thom Yorke, talking to you, right here, on the phone.

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

And the moral of the story is I'm Thom Yorke.

I will never run out of quotes. I am, after all, the Thom Yorke.

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

I didn't ask to be Thom Yorke. Thom Yorke asked to be me.

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

I once tried playing baseball but I started crying.

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

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.