I want to be alone and I want people to notice me – both at the same time.
I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.
I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.
Yeah, after making Pablo Honey, we started experimenting with cloning myself in order to double the band’s creative energy. However, the experiment was a failure, and the defective Thom Yorke clone escaped. And formed a band called Muse.
If you want to be entertained, go and see Hanson.
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.
I became a vegan because I’m better than you.
It’s easy to be miserable. Being happy is tougher – and cooler.
Someone once asked me how the universe was created, I told him it all began with Pablo Honey.
Sometimes the nicest thing to do with a guitar is just look at it.
Amnesiac was written to make fun of senior citizens with alzheimers. I hate them and I wish they’d die.