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My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is.

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Thom Yorke
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: October 7
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Singer-Songwriter
Thomas Edward Yorke
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