Thom Yorke

(10 votes)   And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it.

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(9 votes)   I think sometimes all the charities are doing is mopping up the blood. It's a shame.

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(8 votes)   I think we're entering a very dangerous time. The West has set itself up, decided it's in charge, not for good intentions, not for the benefit of mankind.

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(8 votes)   I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day.

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(7 votes)   I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.

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(7 votes)   I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.

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(6 votes)   I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out.

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(6 votes)   Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job.

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(5 votes)   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.

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(5 votes)   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.

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(5 votes)   This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer's block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper information about what's going on has really helped.

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(5 votes)   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.

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(5 votes)   You think I have the responsibilty... I have the responsibility to give the fans a good time!

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(4 votes)   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.

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(9 votes)   Coming from Britain, I was terrified of meeting all these other artists, because artists over there tend to fight with each other a lot, the premise being that there's not enough room for everybody.

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