I’d like to run for president. Or Prime Minister. I think I could do a better job.
It will be only a matter of time before the music business establishment completely folds.
Can you imagine a world in which the letter O does not exist? My name would be Thm Yrke. Think about that.
Like a fat raccoon rummaging through the garbage, that how I eat. Like a f-king fat raccoon.
My uncle used to sit me on his lap and play “ventriloquist”, only I wasn’t wearing pants.
At a better pace Slower and more calculated No chance of escape.
My argument would be that I don’t think there is much that’s genuinely political art that is good art.
I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I’d be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day.
You’ll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking.
It’s not racist if I like the race. But I don’t like Asian people.
I won’t live in a mostly Mexican neighborhood. I’m sorry I just won’t do it.
Build gaps in your life. Pauses. Proper pauses.
I think we’re entering a very dangerous time. The West has set itself up, decided it’s in charge, not for good intentions, not for the benefit of mankind.
When even your fans are writing to tell you to get a life, you know you need to listen.
I’m not a martyr, just a musician who dies for your sins. Oh, that’s what a martyr is? Very well then, I am a martyr, if you insist.
15 Step is about how if you have mental illness and try to dance you look very funny. Whenever you see me dancing on stage, I’m imitating the mentally ill.
I think maybe since there isn’t a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don’t understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out.
Cigarrettes make you look cool.
Imagine? Yeah I can imagine John Lennon being dead.
My name may be Thom Yorke, but only I can call me Thom Yorke.