Thom Yorke is an English musician best known as the lead vocalist and primary songwriter for the alternative rock band Radiohead. Born in 1968 in Wellingborough, England, Yorke formed Radiohead with his schoolmates in the late 1980s. The band’s innovative sound, characterized by Yorke’s distinctive falsetto vocals and introspective lyrics, quickly garnered critical and commercial success. Radiohead’s albums, including “OK Computer” and “Kid A,” are celebrated for their experimentation and influence on contemporary music. Outside of Radiohead, Yorke has pursued various solo projects, exploring electronic music and collaborating with artists like Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. He’s also been involved in environmental and political activism, using his platform to advocate for causes such as climate change awareness. Yorke’s artistry and activism have solidified his status as one of the most influential figures in modern rock music.

Thom Yorke Quotes

1. “I’m a creep, I’m a weirdo.”
— Thom Yorke

2. “What the hell am I doing here?”
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3. “Immerse your soul in love.”
— Thom Yorke

4. “I’m a creep. I’m a weirdo. What the hell am I doing here? I don’t belong here.”
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5. “I’ll take a quiet life And a handshake of carbon monoxide And no alarms and no surprises.”
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6. “Don’t get any big ideas, They’re not gonna happen.”
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7. “I am all the days that you choose to ignore.”
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8. “I’m listening to Aphex Twin. That makes me cultured and interesting.”
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9. “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.”
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10. “It’s not so much that I’m an atheist so much as the sneaking suspicion that I myself may be god.”
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11. “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.”
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12. “I’ll drown my beliefs. To have you be in peace.”
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13. “I lost my virginity to a pumpkin when I was 23. Back then I was convinced I was actually a Vegetable, hell, that’s what the song is about.”
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14. “It’s easy to be miserable. Being happy is tougher – and cooler.”
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15. “I became a vegan because I’m better than you.”
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16. “I want to be alone and I want people to notice me – both at the same time.”
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17. “Like a fat raccoon rummaging through the garbage, that how I eat. Like a f-king fat raccoon.”
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18. “I hate cars. They are so loud, and ugly, and full of toxic exhaust, like radiohead fans.”
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19. “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.”
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20. “Sometimes I stand in store windows and pretend to be a mannequin. People are like ‘hey, that mannequin looks alot like thom yorke’ Then I start to sing The Gloaming and lurch toward them and they run off horrified.”
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21. “You cannot kickstart a dead horse.”
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22. “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.”
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23. “My parents mistook me for a sack of potatoes so I sat in the corner of the kitchen for the first 13 years of my life. My birth name is Thom Potatoes.”
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24. “Space Jam is my favorite movie. Don’t ask me why, it just is.”
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25. “If I could do just one thing to change the world, I’d make everyone Thom Yorke, and this would be paradise.”
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26. “My uncle used to sit me on his lap and play “ventriloquist”, only I wasn’t wearing pants.”
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27. “In an interstellar burst I am back to save the universe In a fast German car I’m amazed that I survived An airbag saved my life.”
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28. “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.”
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29. “When I go forwards, you go backwards And somewhere we will meet.”
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30. “Alot of my lyrics are about beating my children. ‘Hit the bottom and escape’ is a cry for help. oh god someone stop me.”
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31. “The pointless snide remarks of hammerheaded sharks.”
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32. “My nickname in high school was jack-o-lantern because I’m missing 9 teeth.”
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33. “OK Computer? More like No Thank You Computers. They killed my father, and I hate them.”
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34. “There’s the beautiful people and then there’s the rest of us.”
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35. “Ambition makes you look pretty ugly Kicking and squealing gucci little piggy.”
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36. “When people ask me for an autograph I usually ask for a pen and then stab them with it.”
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37. “Women’s underwear section it’s like Narnia’s wardrobe for my erotic delights.”
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38. “I stopped showering ever since I realized water causes people to drown. I cannot risk being so close to something that can murder me. Do you let killers into your house? Oh, but you let a murderer come out of your own faucet. Hypocrite.”
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39. “I’ve been reading a book lately. That book is Thom Yorke, and the conclusion is that he’s brilliant.”
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40. “Ironically my brother died in a car accident shortly after Airbag was recorded. He’s not an identical twin so I didn’t care.”
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41. “I named my son Noah for the same reason Chris Martin named his apple: we’re asses.”
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42. “The more you try to erase me The more, the more The more that I appear.”
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43. “I’m Chris Martin with down syndrome.”
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44. “My mother tried to abort me herself with a coathanger, hence my wobbly eye.”
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45. “Jumped in the river, what did I see? Black-eyed angels swam with me A moonful of stars and astral cars And all the figures I used to see All my lovers were there with me All my past and futures And we all went to heaven in a little row boat There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt.”
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46. “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.”
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47. “And true love waits In haunted attics And true love lives On lollipops and crisps.”
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48. “I want to live, breathe, I want to be part of the human race.”
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49. “You’ll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking.”
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50. “I see fat kids on the street all the time and I give them free radiohead t-shirts with bullseyes on them. Later when I see them wearing the t-shirts I shoot at them with bb guns while riding a very large dog and singing kicking squealing gucci little piggy over and over.”
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51. “It’s the devil’s way now There is no way out You can scream and you can shout It is too late now.”
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52. “People sometimes say we take things too seriously, but it’s the only way you’ll get anywhere.”
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53. “I can’t wait to die so I can be a skeleton and play my chest like a xylophone.”
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54. “Amnesiac was written to make fun of senior citizens with alzheimers. I hate them and I wish they’d die.”
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55. “I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.”
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56. “You are my centre when I spin away.”
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57. “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.”
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58. “I would rather die then let my kids eat cup a soup.”
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59. “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.”
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60. “You do it to yourself, you do, And that’s what really hurts, Is you do it to yourself, just you, You and no-one else, You do it to yourself.”
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61. “Mephostopheles is the name of a male gigolo I knew. When he’s reaching up to grab me, I suppose it’s an erotic bit of poetry.”
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62. “I hate to sound self absorbed, but I’m just going to cast out this pearl of wisdom, if I could give the whole world cancer and kill them and be the last man on earth it would be a sign that god loves me especially.”
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63. “If I was made of chocolate I would melt myself in a car to ruin the interior.”
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64. “The whole point of creating music for me is to give voice to things that aren’t normally given voice to.”
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65. “At a better pace Slower and more calculated No chance of escape.”
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66. “If I could be any famous person, I’d be John Wilkes Booth, because I’d love to shoot Abraham Lincoln in the face.”
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67. “Metaphorically I am made of chairs. It’s a metaphor though. That means I am not actually made of the chairs.”
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68. “I will never run out of quotes. I am, after all, the Thom Yorke.”
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69. “Trying to find my flaws is like trying to find a black person at one of our concerts.”
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70. “Your fantasies are unlikely. But beautiful.”
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71. “One person can’t change the world. But Thom Yorke can, because he’s two people. Both of them are Thom Yorke.”
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72. “Have you ever seen any member of radiohead aside from me in public? Do they interact or ‘lift’ objects? Holograms, all of them. I created them in 1991 using my massive brainpower. Even pitchforkmedia is a product of my brilliant imagination.”
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73. “Isn’t it strange how someone can be both human and divine at the same time? I am referring, of course, to myself.”
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74. “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.”
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75. “Most of my dancing is actually convulsions from having to listen to my own music.”
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76. “I have multiple personalities, but, being a fairly uncreative individual, they are all Thom Yorke.”
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77. “Occasionally I’ll just pull out a rifle and shoot one of my audience members. So far there have been no complaints filed.”
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78. “It’s not racist if I like the race. But I don’t like Asian people.”
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79. “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.”
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80. “How come I end up where I started? How come I end up where I went wrong? You used to be alright What happened?”
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81. “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.”
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82. “Imagine? Yeah I can imagine John Lennon being dead.”
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83. “Nobody wins the superbowl, I win the superbowl. I am the superbowl.”
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84. “I won’t live in a mostly Mexican neighborhood. I’m sorry I just won’t do it.”
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85. “I’ve tried crowd surfing but the radiating light that surrounds me kept sending me floating into the heavens. Goddamn I’m beautiful.”
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86. “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.”
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87. “Whenever I meet a beauty, I escape or hide in the corner.”
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88. “Radiohead is overrated. Thom Yorke’s solo output, however, is brilliant.”
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89. “I have no idea what I am talking about I’m trapped in this body and can’t get out.”
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90. “She looks like the real thing, She tastes like the real thing, My fake plastic love. But I can’t help the feeling, I could blow through the ceiling If I just turned and ran.”
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91. “Open your mouth wide A universal sigh.”
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92. “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.”
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93. “Yeah, after making Pablo Honey, we started experimenting with cloning myself in order to double the band’s creative energy. However, the experiment was a failure, and the defective Thom Yorke clone escaped. And formed a band called Muse.”
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94. “If we replaced all of our guns with chicken sandwiches it would end all war immediately.”
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95. “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.”
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96. “I’m not afraid of computers taking over the world. They’re just sitting there. I can hit them with a two by four.”
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97. “I once tried playing baseball but I started crying.”
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98. “If I had one wish I’d wish for a million wishes because I am clever.”
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99. “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?”
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100. “It’s a fine line between writing something with genuine emotional impact and turning into little idiots feeling sorry for ourselves and playing stadium rock.”
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101. “And I know I’m paranoid and neurotic, I’ve made a career out of it.”
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102. “While you make pretty speeches I’m being cut to shreds You feed me to the lions A delicate balance.”
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103. “I think what makes people ill a lot of the time is the belief that your thoughts are concrete and that you’re responsible for your thoughts. Whereas actually – the way I see it – your thoughts are what the wind blows through your mind.”
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104. “I’m still not certain on the nature of the spork, whether it is a fork and a spoon, or a fork and a knife mixed together, or maybe a fork and a fork on top. Life is full of mysteries yeah man.”
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105. “Americans are ugly unwashed clods that live off of government cheese. If I could, I’d take every living American, grind them up into a fine paste and use that paste to feed the dolphins, because they are neglected by the evil Americans.”
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106. “My only means of self defense is to wiggle my eye and feign being a salamander. It has saved my life but once I was partially eaten by a bald eagle who thought I was a salamander. Hence, my skills. Hence.”
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107. “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.”
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108. “The only thing worse than Radiohead fans is everything else except me.”
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109. “Are you feeling lucky? Cause I’m on a roll.”
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110. “When I was four I read the story of horton hears a who and I cried. I wanted to eat that elephant.”
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111. “If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That’s the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We’re in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.”
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112. “If I were a bottle of wine, my name would be Thom Cork.”
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113. “I don’t write lyrics, the lyrics write Thom Yorke.”
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114. “Well actually I’m not a man but a carrot. The band was eating salads one day and a carrot fell off of the salad bar onto a microphone and the band realized that they had just discovered something brilliant. Me.”
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115. “Far up above, aliens hover Making home movies for the folks back home Of all these weird creatures that lock up their spirits Drill holes in themselves and live for their secrets.”
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116. “Build gaps in your life. Pauses. Proper pauses.”
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117. “Getting everything you want has nothing to do with anything.”
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118. “I’m the Legendary Radio Head.”
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119. “Do you think Radiohead is my whole goddamn life? I also have a roadside cart where I sell apples and mincemeat pies.”
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120. “It is difficult to make political art work.”
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121. “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.”
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122. “Technology is killing us. We think it’s helping us but it’s killing us. Don’t ask me why because I don’t have the time or the attention span to complete that thought. Now let’s all hold hands and draw spider monkeys.”
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123. “I’m such a tease and you’re such a flirt Routines and schedules A drug that’ll kill you.”
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124. “It turns out I have clinical schizophrenia. The unborn chicken voices were telling me to kill my family.”
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125. “I agree with whoever said Spice Girls are soft port. They’re the antichrist.”
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126. “I was abducted by aliens as a boy. Aliens is the name of a pedophile who lived in my alley.”
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127. “My nickname in college was talentless midget who has a lazy eye is missing teeth resembles a shaved troll doll because I’m a talentless midget who has a lazy eye is missing teeth resembles a shaved troll dol.”
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128. “Sometimes the nicest thing to do with a guitar is just look at it.”
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129. “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.”
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130. “I am the greatest thing to happen to black music.”
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131. “I don’t even have children, it’s just been an excuse to play jenga and hit softballs in my backyard with a box of laundry detergant wearing baby clothes.”
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132. “I could blow bubbles. Bubbles would solve any dilemma we face. If bubbles were president there would be no war.”
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133. “The allegations of me being a pedophile are spurious, at best. However I will admit that taking my knickers off in the park and having an Easter Egg hunt with those apple-cheeked four year olds was in my best interest and not theirs.”
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134. “They love me like I was a brother They protect me, listen to me They dug me my very own garden Gave me sunshine, made me happy Nice dream, nice dream Nice dream.”
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135. “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.”
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136. “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.”
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137. “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.”
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138. “Hunting Bears is a complex song. A bear, as you know is another term for a chubby chaser. The guitar line is actually the sound of a fat man’s thighs rubbing together as he approaches another lardy male for a night of sexual deviance.”
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139. “Rock music is, is a necessary evil, like beating my children with penny loafers.”
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140. “And I’m sorry for us The dinosaurs roam the earth The sky turns green.”
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141. “Have I told you I have cancer? It’s a very special kind of cancer. Cancer of the soul.”
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142. “It’s impossible being me, I radiate a glow that makes others turn and grimace in horror as if staring into the sun.”
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143. “If Bono can release an album out of nowhere then so can I!”
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144. “I don’t like old friends talking to me like I’m a pop star, cos it makes me feel like I’m becoming two-dimensional.”
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145. “When I was born, my mother didn’t know what to name me. Eventually she named me after Thom Yorke.”
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146. “I don’t think I have a superiority complex. I have a “you’re not Thom Yorke” complex.”
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147. “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.”
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148. “So how come it looks so beautiful? How come the moon falls from the sky?”
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149. “The hardest part about being in Radiohead is listening to my own music.”
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150. “And if the world does turn, and if London burns, I’ll be standing on the beach with my guitar. I want to be in a band, when I get to Heaven. Anyone can play guitar, and they won’t be a nothing anymore…”
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151. “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.”
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152. “One little leak becomes a lake, Says the tiny voice in my earpiece.”
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153. “I’ve never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There’s always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.”
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154. “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.”
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155. “Anybody can make ‘good’ music. I make terrible music, which is what makes it so different, and therefore better.”
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156. “There’s nothing more boring than a rock’n’roll star. Someone who has been on the road for 10 years, expecting attention wherever he goes, drinking himself stupid, who is obnoxious, incoherent, uncreative, and has a massive ego. There’s nothing more pointless.”
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157. “You can’t make an egg without frying an egg.”
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158. “I’m baking stories, and singing cookies, oh the tonderous wimes!”
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159. “There’s an upside to the digital thing from my point of view because I find that I have access to all this wacky, weird-ass dance-music stuff that I just can’t go into a shop and buy on vinyl.”
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160. “Coming from Britain, I was terrified of meeting all these other artists, because artists over there tend to fight with each other a lot, the premise being that there’s not enough room for everybody.”
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161. “You know, it’s never easy to understand why I do what I do. For other people, I mean.”
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162. “Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn’t be my job.”
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163. “I had a dream where my face was a hamburger. What the?”
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164. “I don’t think young people are as demoralized as the media and government would like us to think. The obvious sign of that is how strong and how close personal connections are and how much people are able to build a life for themselves, despite all this stuff that’s been thrown at them.”
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165. “There’s a pervading sense of loneliness I’ve had since the day I was born. Maybe a lot of other people feel the same way, but I’m not about to run up and down the street asking everybody if they’re as lonely as I am. I’d probably get locked up.”
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166. “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.”
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167. “I tell you what’s really ridiculous – going into a bookstore and there’s all these books about yourself. In a way, it feels like you’re already dead.”
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168. “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.”
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169. “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.”
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170. “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.”
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171. “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.”
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172. “I’m a full grown man and I’m not tall enough to ride a rollercoaster. So I will sit on the teacups, eat my tea and biscuits and reminisce with the cheshire cat who lives in my head. Oh hello Mr. Cheshire, lovely weather this morning. Mr. Cheshire? Oh my god.”
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173. “Everyone has got the fear It’s holding on Holding on.”
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174. “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.”
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175. “Can you imagine a world in which the letter O does not exist? My name would be Thm Yrke. Think about that.”
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176. “At home I’ve got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour.”
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177. “What’s the difference between Thom Yorke and a pizza? Pizza’s not as cheesy and delicious as Thom Yorke.”
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178. “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!”
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179. “I don’t see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests.”
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180. “I suppose one thing that’s always fascinated me is that thing where you’re a band and you want to start recording and you get a label and a producer, and then there’s that pressure to go out there and really toil.”
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181. “If you want to be entertained, go and see Hanson.”
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182. “Music is more difficult – try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political.”
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183. “I cannot read a fortune cookie without breaking down and crying. I am sensitive.”
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184. “Bulletproof is about the fact that I was shot in the face and survived. Nah I’m joking that’d be grisly and awful.”
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185. “My heart is a weatherballoon caught in an updraft of a chinese tax percentage, the tax percentages are unequivocaaaaaaaaaal, Unequivocaaaaaaaaal. This is the sort of lyrics you could never think of, loser. Here’s a razorblade go cut yourself.”
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186. “I’m banned from Middlebrook elementary for telling dirty jokes to the janitor. The janitor! He cleans up dirt for a living.”
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187. “We don’t have to stand on a soap-box and preach because hopefully we’re channelling it through the new record.”
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188. “Being in a band turns you into a child and keeps you there.”
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189. “People are born with certain faces, like my father was born with a face that people want to hit.”
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190. “I’m not taking things quite so seriously as before. Especially myself.”
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191. “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.”
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192. “There was a clown that tried to eat me as a boy, in my nightmares. Years later I found a clown for booking online who resembled him named Patches. Needless to say, Patches is dead now.”
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193. “Cigarrettes make you look cool.”
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194. “I’m actually an athiest. That’s kind of deep you must admit.”
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195. “When even your fans are writing to tell you to get a life, you know you need to listen.”
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196. “The thing I remember most about America is that it’s silly. That can be quite a relief at times.”
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197. “My name may be Thom Yorke, but only I can call me Thom Yorke.”
— Thom Yorke

198. “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.”
— Thom Yorke

199. “Maybe I’m not the gloaming witches smart, but at least I’m not our stupid liffey hamburger mongrels.”
— Thom Yorke

200. “I’m terrified of lasagna. I think it was to eat ME!”
— Thom Yorke