Thom Yorke: Trending quotes (page 4)

source http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1736527,00.html
On rejecting the opportunity to meet Tony Blair for a campaign to lobby government to help stop climate change.

Thinking

“I haven't done enough. I don't have solar panels on my house yet. I haven't sorted out the heating, my car's not a Prius, I f---ing fly all the time for my job and I hate it but at the moment I haven't really got a choice, you know, and all these things. The job I'm in is a job that wastes energy left, right and centre. It's madness.”

Thom Yorke

source http://www.smh.com.au/news/music/thom-out-of-tune/2006/08/13/1155407659754.html

Hate , Cars , Time , Housing

“Routines and schedules
A drug that'll kill you”

Thom Yorke

Little by Little
Lyrics, The King of Limbs (2011)

“I didn't really come into it expecting to make songs. It started just with random bits and pieces. I guess I thought there would be vocals, but I was thinking in terms of using little vocal shreds, and of making them part of the tapestry, not the main thing. But as soon as we had gone through the initial sketches, it became obvious that they could be quite direct. Nigel basically dragged me kicking and screaming toward the concept of them being actual songs.”

Thom Yorke

source http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Stage/9346/RAAmain.html
On making The Eraser.

Thinking , Parting

“He used to do surgery
On girls in the eighties,
But gravity always wins.”

Thom Yorke

Fake Plastic Trees
Lyrics, The Bends (1995)

Girl

“Open your mouth wide
A universal sigh”

Thom Yorke

Bloom
Lyrics, The King of Limbs (2011)

Universe

“Rows of houses, all bearing down on me,
I can feel their blue hands touching me,
All these things into position,
All these things we'll one day swallow whole.
And fade out again,
And fade out…”

Thom Yorke

Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Lyrics, The Bends (1995)

Feeling , Housing

“You think I have the responsibilty… I have the responsibility to give the fans a good time! (nods at camera, then pauses)… that just sounds… kinky.”

Thom Yorke

Thinking , Time

“The head of state
Has called for me by name
But I don't have time for him
It's gonna be a glorious day
I feel my luck could change”

Thom Yorke

"Lucky"
Lyrics, OK Computer (1997)

Feeling , Change , Time

“But I'm a creep
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doing here
I don't belong here”

Thom Yorke

Creep
Lyrics, Pablo Honey (1993)

Hell

“(about people's image of him) "I think that has a lot to do with the expression that's on my face. People are born with certain faces, like my father was born with a face that people want to hit.”

Thom Yorke

laughs
http://www.followmearound.com/presscuttings.php?year=1995&cutting=19 source

People , Thinking

“I'm such a tease and you're such a flirt”

Thom Yorke

Little by Little
Lyrics, The King of Limbs (2011)

“That there
That's not me
I go
Where I please
I walk through walls
I float down the Liffey”

Thom Yorke

Lyrics, Kid A (2000)

“My big problem with corporate structure is this bizarre sense of loyalty you're supposed to feel -- towards what is basically a virus. It grows or dies, like any virus. And you use it for your own selfish ends.”

Thom Yorke

source http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10464376/radioheads_thom_yorke_on_going_solo/2
On the record industry.

Feeling , Problem , Sense , Loyalty