Thom Yorke Quotes

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

To protest, I stood in the place of a waste receptacle and opened my mouth. That's how I lost my virginity *laughs*

I don't know why people called me Tom. My name is THUMB.

Rock music is, is a necessary evil, like beating my children with penny loafers

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.

There's the beautiful people and then there's the rest of us.

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.

The whole point of creating music for me is to give voice to things that aren't normally given voice to.

Most of my dancing is actually convulsions from having to listen to my own music

I'm such a tease And you're such a flirt... Routines and schedules Drug and kill you Kill you.

If I were a bottle of wine, my name would be Thom Cork

I don't write lyrics, the lyrics write Thom Yorke

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

My uncle used to sit me on his lap and play "ventriloquist", only I wasn't wearing pants.

I actually saw the loch ness monster when I was 9. She was big as a house. Want to know who the loch ness monster is? It's your obese mother. Burn mother****er

When I go forwards, you go backwards And somewhere we will meet.

My nickname in grade school was salamander because I have a lazy eye

I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo. What the hell am I doing here? I don't belong here.

If I was an owl, I would peck your eyes out. Wow this lyric is ****ing brilliant.

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.

People sometimes say we take things too seriously, but it's the only way you'll get anywhere.

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.

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.

Almost every song on OK Computer revolves around how I am afraid computers get up at night and attempt to choke me with their wires.*doesn't laugh*

The hardest part about being in Radiohead is listening to my own music.

There are a lot of things I cannot do, such as eat books and read chicken.

Kid A is about an abortion. *laughs* It's about how our music is an abortion

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.

Every Christmas people are so nice to me, they think I am Little Tim from A Christmas Story. But I'm not. *smiles*

I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo.

What the hell am I doing here?

At the KFC there's, lot of black people there innit *laughs*

I think we're entering a very dangerous time. The West has set itself up, decided it's in charge, not for good intentions, not for the benefit of mankind.

Well, my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won't any by the time... he's my age. That's kinda hard to deal with.

Maybe I'm not the gloaming witches smart, but at least I'm not our stupid liffey hamburger mongrels

I ultimately decided that I couldn't beat it more than three times a day, (I) was just too drained and chapped. That's what Radiohead is about. You're just drained and chapped, down there.

In an interstellar burst, I am back to save the universe. In a deep deep sleep of the innocent, I am born again. In a fast German car, I'm amazed that I survived, An airbag saved my life...

I'm horrified of leprechauns. I'm horrified that I might be leprechauns.

Imagine? Yeah I can imagine John Lennon being dead.

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

I was abducted by aliens as a boy. Aliens is the name of a pedophile who lived in my alley.

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.

Occasionally I'll just pull out a rifle and shoot one of my audience members. So far there have been no complaints filed.

Isn't it strange how someone can be both human and divine at the same time? I am referring, of course, to myself.

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

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

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.

I'm actually an athiest. That's kind of deep you must admit.

I'm not a martyr, just a musician who dies for your sins. Oh, that's what a martyr is? Very well then, I am a martyr, if you insist.

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.