Thom Yorke Quotes

While you make pretty speeches
I'm being cut to shreds
You feed me to the lions
A delicate balance

Routines and schedules A drug that'll kill you

I'm not a vegetable,
I will not control myself.

It's the devil's way now
There is no way out
You can scream and you can shout
It is too late now

Avoid all eye contact
Do not react
Shoot the messengers
This is a low-flying panic attack

The more you try to erase me
The more, the more
The more that I appear

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.

The sad thing is, if an issue is laughed at and patronised by mainstream media, then it's up against it big-time. I read some journalist recently lecturing the anti-globalisation lobby, saying, 'This is the way capitalism works, all capitalism is exploitation and to make it try and do something else, it's never gonna happen.' And it's like, yeah, but where does that leave us? This is somehow God's will? All this? It's God's will that we sit in traffic? It's God's will that millions of people are gonna die this year because of some outmoded economic policies? No, it's not! It's like some deranged sacrificial altar, the high priests of the global economy holding up these millions of children each year, like (Arms aloft) 'We wish to please you! Oh Gods of free trade!' It's like... give us all a fucking break! If there is a Devil at work, then he rests in institutions and not in individuals. Because the beauty of institutions is that any individual can abdicate responsibility. The assumption that we're all utterly powerless, that's the Devil at work.

Ambition makes you look pretty ugly
Kicking and squealing gucci little piggy

In pitch dark I go walkin' in your landscape
Broken branches trip me as I speak
Just 'cause you feel it doesn’t mean it’s there

God loves his children

Open your mouth wide
A universal sigh

"The difference between me and Bono is that he's quite happy to go and flatter people to get what he wants and he's very good at it, but I just can't do it. I'd probably end up punching them in the face rather than shaking their hand, so it's best that I stay out of their way. I can't engage with that level of bullshit. Which is a shame, really, and in a way it would help if I could, but I just can't. I admire the fact that Bono can, and can walk away from it smelling of roses." - source

Don't walk the plank like I did
You will be dispensed with
When you've become
Inconvenient

Drying up in conversation,
You will be the one who cannot talk,
All your insides fall to pieces,
You just sit there wishing you could still make love.