Top 250 Thom Yorke Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I’m a creep, I’m a weirdo.”

— Thom Yorke

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2. “What the hell am I doing here?”

— Thom Yorke

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3. “I’m a creep. I’m a weirdo. What the hell am I doing here? I don’t belong here.”

— Thom Yorke

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4. “Immerse your soul in love.”

— Thom Yorke

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5. “I’ll take a quiet life And a handshake of carbon monoxide And no alarms and no surprises.”

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6. “I am all the days that you choose to ignore.”

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7. “Don’t get any big ideas, They’re not gonna happen.”

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8. “Sonic the hedgehog is a beautiful statement on capitalism. You spend your whole life collecting yellow rings and then hit one spike and lose them all. And there is a fat man who wants to kill you.”

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9. “I’m listening to Aphex Twin. That makes me cultured and interesting.”

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10. “It’s not so much that I’m an atheist so much as the sneaking suspicion that I myself may be god.”

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11. “I lost my virginity to a pumpkin when I was 23. Back then I was convinced I was actually a Vegetable, hell, that’s what the song is about.”

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12. “The only thing more difficult than being a God is being Thom Yorke. Thom Yorke has all these responsibilities, to save the planet. To save the world. To redeem Thom Yorke.”

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13. “I’ll drown my beliefs. To have you be in peace.”

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14. “It’s easy to be miserable. Being happy is tougher – and cooler.”

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15. “I became a vegan because I’m better than you.”

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16. “I want to be alone and I want people to notice me – both at the same time.”

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17. “Sometimes I stand in store windows and pretend to be a mannequin. People are like ‘hey, that mannequin looks alot like thom yorke’ Then I start to sing The Gloaming and lurch toward them and they run off horrified.”

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18. “Like a fat raccoon rummaging through the garbage, that how I eat. Like a f-king fat raccoon.”

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19. “You cannot kickstart a dead horse.”

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20. “I hate cars. They are so loud, and ugly, and full of toxic exhaust, like radiohead fans.”

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21. “My parents mistook me for a sack of potatoes so I sat in the corner of the kitchen for the first 13 years of my life. My birth name is Thom Potatoes.”

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22. “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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23. “Most Radiohead songs are actually REM songs, I just have a mentally ill child read the lyrics aloud and then I change the melodies a bit.”

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24. “In an interstellar burst I am back to save the universe In a fast German car I’m amazed that I survived An airbag saved my life.”

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25. “If I could do just one thing to change the world, I’d make everyone Thom Yorke, and this would be paradise.”

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26. “Space Jam is my favorite movie. Don’t ask me why, it just is.”

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27. “My uncle used to sit me on his lap and play “ventriloquist”, only I wasn’t wearing pants.”

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28. “My mother tried to abort me herself with a coathanger, hence my wobbly eye.”

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29. “As a boy I was a hermit crab, but I soon came out of my shell. Now I am a pincer crab, and soon I will be at my full power as a deadly nuclear lobster.”

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30. “My nickname in high school was jack-o-lantern because I’m missing 9 teeth.”

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31. “OK Computer? More like No Thank You Computers. They killed my father, and I hate them.”

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32. “Ambition makes you look pretty ugly Kicking and squealing gucci little piggy.”

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33. “When I go forwards, you go backwards And somewhere we will meet.”

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34. “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.”

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

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36. “Alot of my lyrics are about beating my children. ‘Hit the bottom and escape’ is a cry for help. oh god someone stop me.”

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37. “The pointless snide remarks of hammerheaded sharks.”

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38. “I see fat kids on the street all the time and I give them free radiohead t-shirts with bullseyes on them. Later when I see them wearing the t-shirts I shoot at them with bb guns while riding a very large dog and singing kicking squealing gucci little piggy over and over.”

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39. “There’s the beautiful people and then there’s the rest of us.”

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40. “Treefingers is important, it’s the point in which our protagonist crosses the icy tundra that is how to disappear completely to reach the island of Optimistic. But seriously, kill yourself.”

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41. “When people ask me for an autograph I usually ask for a pen and then stab them with it.”

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42. “Women’s underwear section it’s like Narnia’s wardrobe for my erotic delights.”

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43. “Your fantasies are unlikely. But beautiful.”

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44. “I’ve been reading a book lately. That book is Thom Yorke, and the conclusion is that he’s brilliant.”

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45. “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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46. “I named my son Noah for the same reason Chris Martin named his apple: we’re asses.”

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47. “The more you try to erase me The more, the more The more that I appear.”

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48. “I’m Chris Martin with down syndrome.”

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49. “I want to live, breathe, I want to be part of the human race.”

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50. “Jumped in the river, what did I see? Black-eyed angels swam with me A moonful of stars and astral cars And all the figures I used to see All my lovers were there with me All my past and futures And we all went to heaven in a little row boat There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt.”

— Thom Yorke