Thom Yorke Quotes

Do you think Radiohead is my whole goddamn life? I also have a roadside cart where I sell apples and mincemeat pies.

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.

Well, I’ve been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there’s no hope.

I’m the next actWaiting in the wingsI’m an animalTrapped in your hot carI am all of the daysThat you choose to ignoreYou are all I needYou are all I needI’m in the middle of your pictureLying in the reeds.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The only thing worse than Radiohead fans is everything else except me

I won’t live in a mostly Mexican neighborhood. I’m sorry I just won’t do it.

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