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If the media spotlight affects my work or represses what I want to say in the future, then it is bad.

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Thom Yorke
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: October 7
Composer
Ecologist
Guitarist
Musician
Pianist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Thomas Edward Yorke
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Getting everything you want has nothing to do with anything.
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The concept of Kid A? How about the concept of I kick your ****ing ass
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My nickname in high school was jack-o-lantern because I'm missing 9 teeth
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If I could be any famous person, I'd be John Wilkes Booth, because I'd love to shoot Abraham Lincoln in the face
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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 was abducted by aliens as a boy. Aliens is the name of a pedophile who lived in my alley.
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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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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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At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour.
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I'm absolutely terrified that people can get into cars. It's like the car is a face, and the headlight is eyes, and when you open the car door it's like you're climbing into the ears. (I cannot) be inside a giant rolling robot head.
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Kid A is about an abortion. An abortion of the soul. *Begins to cry, holds up air quotes* Thom Yorke.
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People are born with certain faces, like my father was born with a face that people want to hit.
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If you don't trust everybody on stage with you, then you're in trouble.
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My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.
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You know, it's never easy to understand why I do what I do. For other people, I mean.
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Most of my dancing is actually convulsions from having to listen to my own music
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