My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad-and hes screaming right-wing, so there you are. – Thom Yorke
I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape. – Thom Yorke
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. – Thom Yorke
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 theyre trying to write about. They have music. – Thom Yorke