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I am the greatest thing to happen to black music.

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Thom Yorke
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: October 7
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Thomas Edward Yorke
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I tell you what's really ridiculous--going into a bookstore and there's all these books about yourself. In a way, it feels like you're already dead.
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The band name came about when the original vocalist died when a huge radio fell on his head. He trotted about for a while dancing with the radio on his head, before he died of asphyxiation and blood loss. *Laughs* it was hilarious
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I'm listening to Aphex Twin. That makes me cultured and interesting.
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I'd like to run for president. Or Prime Minister. I think I could do a better job.
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I've been working hard on a new song, it's titled Frozen Piggy Pudding. It's about how the government is full of pigs who eat pudding all day. Oh look a frisbee, allo' govna.
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I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.
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I'm horrified of leprechauns. I'm horrified that I might be leprechauns.
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I once tried playing baseball but I started crying.
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I guess I am narcisstic, but only in the sense that I am brilliant and tortured as well
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It's easy to be miserable. Being happy is tougher - and cooler.
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I'm terrible at jigsaw puzzles. Other people solve the puzzle but I just keep trying to make the pieces that don't fit fit. I guess that's what makes me special, I try to assemble jigsaw puzzles incorrectly.
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I'm Chris Martin with down syndrome
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You think I have the responsibilty... I have the responsibility to give the fans a good time!
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Rock music is, is a necessary evil, like beating my children with penny loafers
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We weren't listening to guitar bands, we were thoroughly ashamed of being a guitar band. So we bought loads of keyboards and learned how to use them, and when we got bored we went back to guitars.
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I'm the next act Waiting in the wings I'm an animal Trapped in your hot car I am all of the days That you choose to ignore You are all I need You are all I need I'm in the middle of your picture Lying in the reeds.
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I once wrote a song so beautiful that I myself couldn't sing it. It's called Plastic Government Cheese Swan, and it's about how the world is plastic and full of government cheese swans.
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When I was born, my mother didn't know what to name me. Eventually she named me after Thom Yorke.
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