Top 40 Quotes by Thom Yorke

Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job.

We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everybody even more, so we decided to stick with the songs we picked.

I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless.

You think I have the responsibilty... I have the responsibility to give the fans a good time!

I think a lot of tunes can suffer from being so simple, so either they get over-complicated or their simplicity means the simple way to lay them down becomes the difficulty.

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

This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer's block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper information about what's going on has really helped.

We don't have to stand on a soap-box and preach because hopefully we're channelling it through the new record.

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

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.