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I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo. What the hell am I doing here? I don't belong here.

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Thom Yorke
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: October 7
Composer
Ecologist
Guitarist
Musician
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Singer-Songwriter
Thomas Edward Yorke
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I'd go onstage doing this thing, trying to fill this arena that I can't fill because I don't understand what this is. It's like you're given a job that's beyond you. And it's taken me years to realize what works in those big situations.
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If there are political programs on TV, yet it takes an artist to actually energize political debate, that tells you something really quite frightening about the level of the political debate happening on mainstream channels - right-wing-biased mothers.
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The allegations of me being a pedophile are spurious, at best. However I will admit that taking my knickers off in the park and having an Easter Egg hunt with those apple-cheeked four year olds was in my best interest and not theirs
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I once tried playing baseball but I started crying.
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Nobody wins the superbowl, I win the superbowl. I am the superbowl.
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Coming from Britain, I was terrified of meeting all these other artists, because artists over there tend to fight with each other a lot, the premise being that there's not enough room for everybody.
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I'm even taller in person, because photographs shrink you down and steal your soul native american.
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If you want to be entertained, go and see Hanson.
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If I had one wish I'd wish for a million wishes because I am clever.
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I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.
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It is difficult to make political art work.
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I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day.
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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.
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I have multiple personalities, but, being a fairly uncreative individual, they are all Thom Yorke.
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So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls things, and go on doing their own things.
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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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You'll go to Hell For what your Dirty mind is thinking.
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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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