Top 320 Quotes & Sayings by Thom Yorke - Page 4

I know I'm 38 but I insist that santa claus exists and he raped my mother when I was 9.

I jumped in the river, what did I see? Black-eyed angels swam with me A moon full 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.

Kid A is about an abortion. An abortion of the soul. *Begins to cry, holds up air quotes* Thom Yorke.

I'm baking stories, and singing cookies, oh the tonderous wimes!

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.

The problem is, I cannot meditate. That's the one thing I can't do. That's the thing that's driving me nuts. I have a house by the sea, and I can sit and listen to the sound of the sea and eventually... but I can't really do it.

I'm the Legendary Radio Head

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.

I'll drown my beliefs. To have you be in peace.

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.

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

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.

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

I once tried playing baseball but I started crying.

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

OK Computer? More like No Thank You Computers. They killed my father, and I hate them.

I am the greatest thing to happen to black music.

I'm terrible at jigsaw puzzles. Other people solve the puzzle but I just keep trying to make the pieces that don't fit fit. I guess that's what makes me special, I try to assemble jigsaw puzzles incorrectly.

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.

I didn't ask to be Thom Yorke. Thom Yorke asked to be me.

We're at a time when we are being presented with undeniable changes in the global climate and fundamental issues that affect every single one of us, and it's the time we're listening to the most hokey shite on the radio and watching vacuous bullshit celebrities being vacuous bullshit celebrities and desperately trying to forget about everything. Which is fine, you know, but personally speaking, I can't do that.

2+2=5 wasn't intentional. I thought you carry a 1 every time there are two 2's in an equation. I'm not stupid, the mathematicians is stupid

Nobody wins the superbowl, I win the superbowl. I am the superbowl.

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

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 got into the music business thinking it was really radical, that it wasn't really a business at all, that it was a lot of people being artistic and creative. Not true, and it made me very depressed.

At a better pace, slower and more calculated No chance of escape.

Our merchandised may be over priced, but I think it's reasonable considering I only want more money.

Are you feeling lucky? Cause I'm on a roll.

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

Immerse your soul in love.

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

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.

I'll take a quiet life, A handshake of carbon monoxide. No alarms and no surprises...

When I was four I read the story of horton hears a who and I cried. I wanted to eat that elephant.

I have multiple personalities, but, being a fairly uncreative individual, they are all Thom Yorke.

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.

Sometimes when you get an opportunity to appropriate your work, or use whatever collateral you have, for something good, you think, "Well, yeah, you should do this." You're not in any way qualified to do it, but I was so sick of hearing so many unqualified people say that global warming doesn't exist, I thought, "Well, I'm no less qualified than they are, so I can deal with doing it."

I will never run out of quotes. I am, after all, the Thom Yorke.

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.

I wanted to live with the ****ing manta rays, but they banned me from Sea World.

If you don't trust everybody on stage with you, then you're in trouble.

I wear my pants on my upper torso to be abstract and different.

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 it’s corporate interests.

I've been working hard on a new song, it's titled "Frozen Piggy Pudding". It's about how the government is full of pigs who eat pudding all day. Oh look a frisbee, allo' govna.

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

I may be a tough fellow but I have a reflective side as well. Reflective as in I'll bash your head in with a ****ing mirror.

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

When even your fans are writing to tell you to get a life, you know you need to listen.

Performing is great, but you are exposed to all this extra stuff that you don't have to deal with when you stop. I'm getting used to it now, but it's kind of just the fallout. It's really weird. It's not a natural situation to be in. It sounds like moaning, because I know that's what I'm supposed to do, and I'm not moaning.

I use various soaps and hand sanitizers in the shower. I shower maybe fifteen times a day, but Thom Yorke is never really clean *laughs*.

It's not racist if I like the race. But I don't like Asian people.

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

You are my centre when I spin away.

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*

One person can't change the world. But Thom Yorke can, because he's two people. Both of them are Thom Yorke.

When I was born, my mother didn't know what to name me. Eventually she named me after Thom Yorke.

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

I've tried crowd surfing but the radiating light that surrounds me kept sending me floating into the heavens. Goddamn I'm beautiful

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