Quotes from Thom Yorke

you have not been / paying attention

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...

I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo

I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world. They're just sitting there. I can hit them with a two-by-four.

And if the world does turn, and if London burns, I'll be standing on the beach with my guitar

If there is a devil at work then he rests in institutions and not in individuals. Because the beauty of institutions is that any individual can abdicate responsibility. The assumption that we're all utterly powerless, that's the devil at work.

Get the eggs Get the flan in the face

I'm not here, This isn't happening

The reason you create music or art or write is in order to put things in a way you can possibly deal with them, and death is one of those areas... If you're accused of being morbid or bleak then you're onto a good thing, I'd say. Our culture is the most fucking desperate culture, desperately trying to avoid anything vaguely depressing.

You do it to yourself

Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job.

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.

Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think.

We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everybody even more, so we decided to stick with the songs we picked.

If you Americans aren't from the stone age then explain to me how your president is a ****ing pterodactyl

We didn't start out to make a protest record at all. That would have been too shallow. As usual, it was simply a case of absorbing what's going on around us.

I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.

It is difficult to make political art work.

If the media spotlight affects my work or represses what I want to say in the future, then it is bad.

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.

Hungry Hungry Hippos is so depressing. You continuously chomp away at those balls and you are alone and it's your birthday.'

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.

It will be only a matter of time before the music business establishment completely folds.

If I was made of chocolate I would melt myself in a car to ruin the interior.