Thom Yorke Quotes

My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, that's a reflection of another character.

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.

My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.

I think there's a deep impulse in most humans to do creative stuff, whether that's music or art, photography or writing. Most people at some point in their life say they want to do something creative - they want to be an actor, a director, a writer, a poet, a painter or whatever.

Artists need to express.

Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do.

In a lot of the art world, you have to present yourself as you know what you're doing at a young age. Music gave me another outlet. The 'no wave' bands were such an inspiration; it felt so free - once you start doing it, it's hard to stop. But I can't get away from art. It comes back around. I wouldn't be true to myself if I didn't pursue it.

The only thing that's ever made sense to me has been sitting in the house by myself making music.

Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life.

I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths.

I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I love cinema.

The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.

I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on.

Whether it be in acting, music, or even in dancing, I only want to do things that I truly connect to, and with my music, it's everything that I am.

My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can.

Whether it's music or acting, that creativity all comes from the same source.

Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.

No matter how many times people say it - 'Oh, I'm just writing this for myself' 'Oh, I'm just doing this for myself' - nobody's doing it for themselves! You're doing it for an audience. So whether I'm performing or writing a book or playing music, it's definitely to be put out there and to be received in some way, definitely.

I genuinely find the most meaningful thing I do is to make music, but also to absorb some sort of creativity.

As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is.

I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.

I think it's an okay thing to express yourself.

I can't imagine life without singing.