3 December 2020 Thom Yorke 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.
3 December 2020 Thom Yorke If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That’s the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We’re in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.
3 December 2020 Thom Yorke 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.
3 December 2020 Thom Yorke I’ve never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There’s always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.
3 December 2020 Thom Yorke My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that’s just the way it is.
3 December 2020 Thom Yorke The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future.
3 December 2020 Thom Yorke 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 he’s screaming right-wing, so there you are.
3 December 2020 Thom Yorke Well, my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won’t any by the time… he’s my age. That’s kinda hard to deal with.
