If I could do just one thing to change the world, I'd make everyone Thom Yorke, and this would be paradise.

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.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in

In the ring, I never really knew fear.

If something's not working, it's wonderful to have a reader you can trust to say, 'Actually, you've gone off the deep end here'.

I love divas. Madonna, Mariah, Beyonce, Britney.

Somerset has a wonderful wildness about it - it hasn't been tamed. This is farming country, and there's a realness here - I love it.

To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally.

I wanted to sound new and exciting - the punk movement was over with for me.

Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.

In a general way, a major goal of the propagandist is to seek some kind of authoritative backing for the belief he or she is propagating.

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.