Thom Yorke Quotes - Page 11

I could blow bubbles. Bubbles would solve any dilemma we face. If bubbles were president there would be no war.

Don't get any big ideas They're not gonna happen.

You'll go to Hell For what your Dirty mind is thinking.

I'm a full grown man and I'm not tall enough to ride a rollercoaster. So I will sit on the teacups, eat my tea and biscuits and reminisce with the cheshire cat who lives in my head. Oh hello Mr. Cheshire, lovely weather this morning. Mr. Cheshire? Oh my god.

Chicken Little change my life when I was younger. I had no idea chickens could talk *laughs*.

It is difficult to make political art work.

My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.

Generally, it's not good to be engaged directly with the political system unless you are qualified. It`s a very depressing business, the way politics works. You get stuck into it, but then, at some point, you have to walk away. I had to walk away, because it's like this dark, black energy void. There are some people who have dedicated their lives to living in that energy void, but I can't do it. I just can't go there. It feels like you're treading water too much when you do. It's a crazy thing.

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.

Coming from Britain, I was terrified of meeting all these other artists, because artists over there tend to fight with each other a lot, the premise being that there's not enough room for everybody.

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.

Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political.

I once wrote a song so beautiful that I myself couldn't sing it. It's called Plastic Government Cheese Swan, and it's about how the world is plastic and full of government cheese swans.

Obviously, the duty of artists is there, but it's more an indictment of the political system that someone like Zinn views artists as the seers, idealizing them as the people responsible for inspiring change.

It's God's will that millions of people are gonna die this year because of some outmoded economic policies? No, it's not!

If there are political programs on TV, yet it takes an artist to actually energize political debate, that tells you something really quite frightening about the level of the political debate happening on mainstream channels - right-wing-biased mothers.

It's impossible being me, I radiate a glow that makes others turn and grimace in horror as if staring into the sun.

I'm even taller in person, because photographs shrink you down and steal your soul native american.

What the hell am I doing here?

I'm terrified of lasagna. I think it was to eat ME!

The thing I remember most about America is that it's silly. That can be quite a relief at times.

i'M nOT thOM yorkE but a. ROBOT.

It turns out I have clinical schizophrenia. The unborn chicken voices were telling me to kill my family.

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.

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