Top 250 Thom Yorke Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “If I could be any famous person, I’d be John Wilkes Booth, because I’d love to shoot Abraham Lincoln in the face.”

— Thom Yorke

52. “I will never run out of quotes. I am, after all, the Thom Yorke.”

— Thom Yorke

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

— Thom Yorke

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

— Thom Yorke

55. “Getting everything you want has nothing to do with anything.”

— Thom Yorke

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

— Thom Yorke

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

— Thom Yorke

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

— Thom Yorke

59. “It turns out I have clinical schizophrenia. The unborn chicken voices were telling me to kill my family.”

— Thom Yorke

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

— Thom Yorke

61. “Look at that fat kid, in the audience. You want some pie you little fatty? I strongly dislike fat kids. Security, please remove him, that fat kid, over there, by the pies.”

— Thom Yorke

62. “Time is running out for us But you just move the hands upon the clock You throw coins in the wishing well For us You just move your hands upon the wall.”

— Thom Yorke

63. “And true love waits In haunted attics And true love lives On lollipops and crisps.”

— Thom Yorke

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

— Thom Yorke

65. “People sometimes say we take things too seriously, but it’s the only way you’ll get anywhere.”

— Thom Yorke

66. “It’s the devil’s way now There is no way out You can scream and you can shout It is too late now.”

— Thom Yorke

67. “I can’t wait to die so I can be a skeleton and play my chest like a xylophone.”

— Thom Yorke

68. “I won’t live in a mostly Mexican neighborhood. I’m sorry I just won’t do it.”

— Thom Yorke

69. “You are my centre when I spin away.”

— Thom Yorke

70. “15 Step is about how if you have mental illness and try to dance you look very funny. Whenever you see me dancing on stage, I’m imitating the mentally ill.”

— Thom Yorke

71. “She looks like the real thing, She tastes like the real thing, My fake plastic love. But I can’t help the feeling, I could blow through the ceiling If I just turned and ran.”

— Thom Yorke

72. “I have no idea what I am talking about I’m trapped in this body and can’t get out.”

— Thom Yorke

73. “Mephostopheles is the name of a male gigolo I knew. When he’s reaching up to grab me, I suppose it’s an erotic bit of poetry.”

— Thom Yorke

74. “If I had one wish I’d wish for a million wishes because I am clever.”

— Thom Yorke

75. “I hate to sound self absorbed, but I’m just going to cast out this pearl of wisdom, if I could give the whole world cancer and kill them and be the last man on earth it would be a sign that god loves me especially.”

— Thom Yorke

76. “If we replaced all of our guns with chicken sandwiches it would end all war immediately.”

— Thom Yorke

77. “The hardest part about being in radiohead is being inside a giant head that is a radio. Ha ha, little english humour there, or is it a hammer?”

— Thom Yorke

78. “At a better pace Slower and more calculated No chance of escape.”

— Thom Yorke

79. “I think what makes people ill a lot of the time is the belief that your thoughts are concrete and that you’re responsible for your thoughts. Whereas actually – the way I see it – your thoughts are what the wind blows through your mind.”

— Thom Yorke

80. “Metaphorically I am made of chairs. It’s a metaphor though. That means I am not actually made of the chairs.”

— Thom Yorke

81. “One person can’t change the world. But Thom Yorke can, because he’s two people. Both of them are Thom Yorke.”

— Thom Yorke

82. “Have you ever seen any member of radiohead aside from me in public? Do they interact or ‘lift’ objects? Holograms, all of them. I created them in 1991 using my massive brainpower. Even pitchforkmedia is a product of my brilliant imagination.”

— Thom Yorke

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

— Thom Yorke

84. “People in bands don’t have the kind of conversations people might think they have. The best things about being in a band are the things that are unsaid.”

— Thom Yorke

85. “Most of my dancing is actually convulsions from having to listen to my own music.”

— Thom Yorke

86. “I have multiple personalities, but, being a fairly uncreative individual, they are all Thom Yorke.”

— Thom Yorke

87. “Occasionally I’ll just pull out a rifle and shoot one of my audience members. So far there have been no complaints filed.”

— Thom Yorke

88. “It’s not racist if I like the race. But I don’t like Asian people.”

— Thom Yorke

89. “If I were to be any celebrity, I’d be Chris Martin. I’ve always wondered what it would be like to be jealous of Thom Yorke.”

— Thom Yorke

90. “How come I end up where I started? How come I end up where I went wrong? You used to be alright What happened?”

— Thom Yorke

91. “Imagine? Yeah I can imagine John Lennon being dead.”

— Thom Yorke

92. “Nobody wins the superbowl, I win the superbowl. I am the superbowl.”

— Thom Yorke

93. “I often fake my death and then just show up at people’s houses. They say ‘that’s a good one Thom’ but I know maybe they don’t really think it’s a funny joke.”

— Thom Yorke

94. “I’ve tried crowd surfing but the radiating light that surrounds me kept sending me floating into the heavens. Goddamn I’m beautiful.”

— Thom Yorke

95. “The video of ‘Paranoid Android’ has been censored by MTV. They took all nipples out of the cartoon, but they had no problem with the scene in which a man cuts off his own arms and legs.”

— Thom Yorke

96. “Radiohead is overrated. Thom Yorke’s solo output, however, is brilliant.”

— Thom Yorke

97. “Whenever I meet a beauty, I escape or hide in the corner.”

— Thom Yorke

98. “I’m not afraid of computers taking over the world. They’re just sitting there. I can hit them with a two by four.”

— Thom Yorke

99. “Open your mouth wide A universal sigh.”

— Thom Yorke

100. “I once got hit with a taser at a concert and everyone thought I was dancing. Now I have to do that dance, at every show for the rest of my life, or admit that a taser can damage the Thom Yorke.”

— Thom Yorke