Top 40 Quotes by Thom Yorke

It is difficult to make political art work.

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.

I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless.

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

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.

I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.

Well, my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won't any by the time... he's my age. That's kinda hard to deal with.

At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour.

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.

The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future.