Quotes from Thom Yorke

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

I think sometimes all the charities are doing is mopping up the blood. It's a shame.

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.

My mother tried to abort me herself with a coathanger, hence my wobbly eye.

Making music for Radiohead is like going to the bathroom, I'm just going to the bathroom constantly, and millions are watching me go to the bathroom.

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

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

Alot of my lyrics are about beating my children. 'Hit the bottom and escape' is a cry for help. oh god someone stop me

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

The society, is, a dishwasher, where all the water, is, dead chipmunk blood. God I'm brilliant.

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.

It's God's will that millions of people are gonna die this year because of some outmoded economic policies? No, it's not!

My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.

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.

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.

I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.

I feel like, as musicians, we need to fight the Spotify thing. I feel that in some ways what's happening in the mainstream is the last gasp of the old industry. Once that does finally die, which it will, something else will happen.

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.

I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world.

And true love waits In haunted attics And true love lives On lollipops and crisps

I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless.

We don't have to stand on a soap-box and preach because hopefully we're channelling it through the new record.

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.

I often steal sandwiches, eat them, and put the container's back., with a signed autograph of my self in its place. It's my way of giving back to society.