Thom Yorke Quotes

I can never be the hero now. You have to be young and all that stuff. I used to be the hero.

To me, England is past its sell-by date. It's not the country I grew up in.

Things ain't what they used to be and never were.

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

As I review my life, I feel I must have missed the point, either then or now.

I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.

I'm not sure whether I've been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cup of tea. I thought: 'You can't rewind the movie. I've spent more than half my life in the Middle East. There have been great moments of horror and depression and loneliness.'

One thing I've learned: You never know where life is taking you, but it's taking you.

Back in Manchester, I was not happy with myself.

Everything happens for a reason. But I would love to still be at Clemson.

The trouble with all of us is we are where we shouldn't be.

The dream is over. I gotta get down to reality. The good old days is garbage.

Mercy, mercy me, things ain't what they used to be.

When your memories exceed your dreams, the end is near.

I was made to believe that my life was going to be fixed and it wasn't. I'm still the same loser who had flown to Los Angeles on my sister's frequent flier miles just six days before.

I know I'm tired of thinking about what I should have done yesterday. I know I'm just tired. If I knew what to do with my life, how to fix it up, I would have done it a long time ago. You can't dig that? You think I want to live like I'm somebody's throwaway?

When I look at myself, I don't see the man I wanted to be.

It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

The older I get the more things I gotta leave behind.

I did my best. I guess my best wasn't good enough.

Now, more than ever, I realize just how illusory my undeserved success has been. I still hold out some hope of doing better, but age and unhappiness have sapped my strength.

The question that he frames in all but words is what to make of a diminished thing.

My father passed away before he saw me perform. I can't help but wonder what he would think of all this. I go to a job in full makeup.

She wrote, I wish I could be a girl again, with a chance to live my life again. I have suffered so much more than I needed to. And the joys I have felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently.