Thom Yorke
Thom Yorke
Thomas Edward "Thom" Yorkeis an English musician best known as the singer and principal songwriter of the alternative rock band Radiohead. A multi-instrumentalist, Yorke mainly plays guitar and piano, but also plays instruments including keyboards, bass, and drums, and works extensively with synthesisers, sequencers and programming. He is known for his falsetto vocals; in 2008, Rolling Stone ranked him the 66th greatest singer of all time...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth7 October 1968
CityWellingborough, England
I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.
Yeah, after making Pablo Honey, we started experimenting with cloning myself in order to double the band's creative energy. However, the experiment was a failure, and the defective Thom Yorke clone escaped. And formed a band called Muse.
I became a vegan because I'm better than you
One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.
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.
It's easy to be miserable. Being happy is tougher - and cooler.
Someone once asked me how the universe was created, I told him it all began with Pablo Honey
Amnesiac was written to make fun of senior citizens with alzheimers. I hate them and I wish they'd die.
The only thing worse than Radiohead fans is everything else except me
The whole point of creating music for me is to give voice to things that aren't normally given voice to.
I don't know why people called me Tom. My name is THUMB.
I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.
To protest, I stood in the place of a waste receptacle and opened my mouth. That's how I lost my virginity *laughs*
Hungry Hungry Hippos is so depressing. You continuously chomp away at those balls and you are alone and it's your birthday.'