Thom Yorke Quotes - Page 8

I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless.

Well, it only dawned on me about six months ago that not everybody's against me all the time. It was something of a revelation.

I'd like to run for president. Or Prime Minister. I think I could do a better job.

Do not tell me what I can and cannot do. I'll be as asian as I want to (Stretches his eyes in a racist manner).

I'd go onstage doing this thing, trying to fill this arena that I can't fill because I don't understand what this is. It's like you're given a job that's beyond you. And it's taken me years to realize what works in those big situations.

I tell you what's really ridiculous--going into a bookstore and there's all these books about yourself. In a way, it feels like you're already dead.

If you Americans aren't from the stone age then explain to me how your president is a ****ing pterodactyl

My name may be Thom Yorke, but only I can call me Thom Yorke.

As a boy I was a hermit crab, but I soon came out of my shell. Now I am a pincer crab, and soon I will be at my full power as a deadly nuclear lobster.

And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it.

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.

I'm Chris Martin with down syndrome

I have this thing about my own voice on record. No matter what I sing, it sounds really serious, and I sound self loathing or whatever, which was just driving me nuts because that's not what I was writing.

You know, it's never easy to understand why I do what I do. For other people, I mean.

I may have found the cure for cancer, and I think it might be Thom Yorke Serum.

The only thing more difficult than being a God is being Thom Yorke. Thom Yorke has all these responsibilities, to save the planet. To save the world. To redeem Thom Yorke.

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

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.

I don't think I have a superiority complex. I have a "you're not Thom Yorke" complex.

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

And the moral of the story is I'm Thom Yorke.

I suppose one thing that's always fascinated me is that thing where you're a band and you want to start recording and you get a label and a producer, and then there's that pressure to go out there and really toil.

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.

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

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