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
Whenever I meet a beauty, I escape or hide in the corner.
I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo
Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope.
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.
Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political.
We didn't start out to make a protest record at all. That would have been too shallow. As usual, it was simply a case of absorbing what's going on around us.
You think I have the responsibilty... I have the responsibility to give the fans a good time!
It is difficult to make political art work.
Every move you make has already been done, and taken the piss out of.
If the media spotlight affects my work or represses what I want to say in the future, then it is bad.
People sometimes say we take things too seriously, but it's the only way you'll get anywhere.
I think a lot of tunes can suffer from being so simple, so either they get over-complicated or their simplicity means the simple way to lay them down becomes the difficulty.
I can't wait to die so I can be a skeleton and play my chest like a xylophone.
Bulletproof is about the fact that I was shot in the face and survived. Nah I'm joking that'd be grisly and awful.