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.

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I want to be alone and I want people to notice me — both at the s... by Thom Yorke

I want to be alone and I want people to notice me — both at the same time.

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Yeah, after making Pablo Honey, we started experimenting with cloning myself in order to double the band's creative energy. However, the experiment was a failure, and the defective Thom Yorke clone escaped. And formed a band called Muse.

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Ironically my brother died in a car accident shortly after Airbag was recorded. He's not an identical twin so I didn't care.

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I think the most important thing about music is the sense of esca... by Thom Yorke

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

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Amnesiac was written to make fun of senior citizens with alzheimers. I hate them and I wish they'd die.

senior hate fun

I'm not saying my fans are stupid, but I once left a cabbage onstage next to a harmonica and nobody noticed for three hours

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I think artists can influence only through making music that challenges people, excites them and flips them out. Music that repeats what you know in ever-decreasing derivation, that's unchallenging and unstimulating, deadens our minds, our imagination and our ability to see beyond the hell we find ourselves in.

artist people thinking

I can't wait to die so I can be a skeleton and play my chest like... by Thom Yorke

I can't wait to die so I can be a skeleton and play my chest like a xylophone.

skeletons waiting play

I'm not a martyr, just a musician who dies for your sins. Oh, that's what a martyr is? Very well then, I am a martyr, if you insist.

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I don't eat food, I Thom Yorke it. What's the difference? When normal people "eat" food, they first chew it with their "teeth" until it's small enough to go through their "esophagus" and then be broken down in their "stomach" and absorbed. When I Thom Yorke food, I chew it with my Thom Yorkes until it's small enough to go through my Yorke tube. It's then broken down in my Thomach, where if I eat too much sweets, I get a mean Thommy ache! But it's okay because Jonny's usually there to rub the pain out.

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There's the beautiful people and then there's the rest of us. by Thom Yorke

There's the beautiful people and then there's the rest of us.

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Trying to find my flaws is like trying to find a black person at... by Thom Yorke

Trying to find my flaws is like trying to find a black person at one of our concerts

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I stopped showering ever since I realized water causes people to drown. I cannot risk being so close to something that can murder me. Do you let killers into your house? Oh, but you let a murderer come out of your own faucet. Hypocrite.

hypocrite water people

It's a fine line between writing something with genuine emotional impact and turning into little idiots feeling sorry for ourselves and playing stadium rock.

emotional sorry writing

I am all the days that you choose to ignore. by Thom Yorke

I am all the days that you choose to ignore.

radiohead you-choose

Isn't it strange how someone can be both human and divine at the same time? I am referring, of course, to myself.

strange humans divine

It's hard being Thom Yorke. You have to get up every morning and look at that face and not shoot at it with a gun.

gun morning looks

If I were a bottle of wine, my name would be Thom Cork by Thom Yorke

If I were a bottle of wine, my name would be Thom Cork

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I'm horrified of leprechauns. I'm horrified that I might be lepre... by Thom Yorke

I'm horrified of leprechauns. I'm horrified that I might be leprechauns.

leprechaun might

It's easy to be miserable. Being happy is tougher - and cooler. by Thom Yorke

It's easy to be miserable. Being happy is tougher - and cooler.

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