I don’t know why people called me Tom. My name is THUMB.
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.
Rock music is, is a necessary evil, like beating my children with penny loafers.
My mother tried to abort me herself with a coathanger, hence my wobbly eye.
The only thing worse than Radiohead fans is everything else except me.
The whole point of creating music for me is to give voice to things that aren’t normally given voice to.
Alot of my lyrics are about beating my children. ‘Hit the bottom and escape’ is a cry for help. oh god someone stop me.
I’m a creep, I’m a weirdo.
So how come it looks so beautiful? How come the moon falls from the sky?
My nickname in college was talentless midget who has a lazy eye is missing teeth resembles a shaved troll doll because I’m a talentless midget who has a lazy eye is missing teeth resembles a shaved troll dol.
If I were to be any celebrity, I’d be Chris Martin. I’ve always wondered what it would be like to be jealous of Thom Yorke.
If we replaced all of our guns with chicken sandwiches it would end all war immediately.
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 its corporate interests.
If I had one wish I’d wish for a million wishes because I am clever.
There’s nothing more boring than a rock’n’roll star. Someone who has been on the road for 10 years, expecting attention wherever he goes, drinking himself stupid, who is obnoxious, incoherent, uncreative, and has a massive ego. There’s nothing more pointless.
I think what makes people ill a lot of the time is the belief that your thoughts are concrete and that you’re responsible for your thoughts. Whereas actually – the way I see it – your thoughts are what the wind blows through your mind.
I recently enrolled at an elementary school and they accepted me. I am finally going to get revenge on those kids that beat me up as a boy, assuming they are still attending.
Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn’t be my job.
I’m not afraid of computers taking over the world. They’re just sitting there. I can hit them with a two by four.
We weren’t listening to guitar bands, we were thoroughly ashamed of being a guitar band. So we bought loads of keyboards and learned how to use them, and when we got bored we went back to guitars.