Thom Yorke Quotes

I wear my pants on my upper torso to be abstract and different.

When even your fans are writing to tell you to get a life, you know you need to listen.

When I was born, my mother didn't know what to name me. Eventually she named me after Thom Yorke.

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.

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.

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

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 don't really think of most non-English as people, more or less indigenous squirrels that I fancy to kick around with my snakeskin French Persian Boots

As a boy I was a hermit crab, but I soon came out of my shell. Now I am a pincer crab, and soon I will be at my full power as a deadly nuclear lobster.

Do not tell me what I can and cannot do. I'll be as asian as I want to (Stretches his eyes in a racist manner).

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

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

The hardest part about being in radiohead is being inside a giant head that is a radio. Ha ha, little english humour there, or is it a hammer?

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

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

I have no idea what I am talking about I'm trapped in this body and can't get out

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.

I had a dream where my face was a hamburger. What the?

Metaphorically I am made of chairs. It's a metaphor though. That means I am not actually made of the chairs.

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

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.

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

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

When I was four I read the story of horton hears a who and I cried. I wanted to eat that elephant.

I'm baking stories, and singing cookies, oh the tonderous wimes!

Kid A is about an abortion. An abortion of the soul. *Begins to cry, holds up air quotes* Thom Yorke.

I'm the Legendary Radio Head

I know I'm 38 but I insist that santa claus exists and he raped my mother when I was 9.

All of our saddest songs have somewhere in them at least a glimmer of resolve - Street Spirit has no resolve. It is the dark tunnel without the light at the end.

Immerse your soul in love.

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.

Drying up in conversation You will be the one who cannot talk All your insides fall to pieces You just sit there wishing you could still make love.

It's maybe a good thing to try to make music that feels reassuring in some ways - something that's got a good feeling, a good vibe about it.

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.

I'll drown my beliefs. To have you be in peace.

I think a lot of tunes can suffer from being so simple, so either they get over-complicated or their simplicity means the simple way to lay them down becomes the difficulty.

At a better pace, slower and more calculated No chance of escape.

Are you feeling lucky? Cause I'm on a roll.

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

My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad-and he's screaming right-wing, so there you are.

You do it to yourself, you do, And that's what really hurts, Is that you do it to yourself, Just you and no one else, You do it to yourself...

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

In pitch dark I go walking in your landscape Broken branches Trip me as I speak Just 'cause you feel it Doesn't mean it's there... We are accidents waiting Waiting to happen.

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

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

If you Americans aren't from the stone age then explain to me how your president is a ****ing pterodactyl

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

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

I'd like to run for president. Or Prime Minister. I think I could do a better job.