"While you make pretty speeches Im being cut to shreds You feed me to the lions A delicate balance"
Thomas Edward Yorke is an English musician who is the singer and main songwriter of the rock band Radiohead. He plays guitar, bass, keyboards and other instruments, and is noted for his falsetto. Rolling Stone described Yorke as one of the greatest and most influential singers of his generation.
"Were at a time when we are being presented with undeniable changes in the global climate and fundamental issues that affect every single one of us, and its the time were listening to the most hokey shite on the radio and watching vacuous bullshit celebrities being vacuous bullshit celebrities and desperately trying to forget about everything. Which is fine, you know, but personally speaking, I cant do that." source"
"My big problem with corporate structure is this bizarre sense of loyalty youre supposed to feel -- towards what is basically a virus. It grows or dies, like any virus. And you use it for your own selfish ends." - source"
"Theres nothing more boring than a rocknroll star, someone who has been on the road for 10 years, expecting attention wherever he goes, drinking himself stupid, who is obnoxious, incoherent, uncreative and has a massive ego. Theres nothing more pointless." - source"
"I havent done enough. I dont have solar panels on my house yet. I havent sorted out the heating, my cars not a Prius, I f---ing fly all the time for my job and I hate it but at the moment I havent really got a choice, you know, and all these things. The job Im in is a job that wastes energy left, right and centre. Its madness." source"
"Its like a supply and demand thing. Its like Well, this is what they want me to do, this is what they want to hear. So Ill do more of this, cuz this is great... and they love me. Suddenly people start giving you money as well. So then youve got money and you get used to this lifestyle. And you dont wanna take any risks cause theyve got you by the balls, and youve got all these little things that youve bought, or youre attached to. And you start spending all this money... And thats how they get ya!" - source"
"The sad thing is, if an issue is laughed at and patronised by mainstream media, then its up against it big-time. I read some journalist recently lecturing the anti-globalisation lobby, saying, This is the way capitalism works, all capitalism is exploitation and to make it try and do something else, its never gonna happen. And its like, yeah, but where does that leave us? This is somehow Gods will? All this? Its Gods will that we sit in traffic? Its Gods will that millions of people are gonna die this year because of some outmoded economic policies? No, its not! Its like some deranged sacrificial altar, the high priests of the global economy holding up these millions of children each year, like (Arms aloft) We wish to please you! Oh Gods of free trade! Its like... give us all a fucking break! If there is a Devil at work, then he rests in institutions and not in individuals. Because the beauty of institutions is that any individual can abdicate responsibility. The assumption that were all utterly powerless, thats the Devil at work.""