Kids are shy and they often don't want to make eye contact or say "thank you."

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.

I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

My job as an artist, as I see it, is to understand and in some cases to take on various ways of thinking about people and the world that are different from my own, sometimes radically different.

An air of mystery closed around the details of his early life. I didn't pry. He had been through hell and had a right to his secrets.

That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up.

It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.

You are an alchemist who can turn six beers into an awkward three week relationship.

What is a vow... but the mouth repeating what the heart has already promised?

Sometimes to be seen is the same thing as being saved.

I didn't come in as a writer that found producers, I came in under producers. So I've always respected the actual production process and producers in general.

It's no virtue to gain the whole world. Just gain the heart of one person.

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