Thom Yorke Quotes

I am a politically motivated person, and that will come through in the music.

I think about politics, so it would be inauthentic not to talk about it.

The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.

I follow politics, but I don't like to discuss it.

You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.

Some of the greatest artists did their best work when they got political.

As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.

I follow politics in a big way, and always have since I was a kid. I've got opinions, but they're opinions on both sides - not just anti-Republican, which is a real popular thing for a rap artist to do. If you dis Republicans, nobody will get mad. I think the two-party system sucks. It's absolutely ignorant.

I would like to never ever think about any political issues.

I'm not into politics.

Political audiences are not fun.

In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life.

I have always stayed out of politics, I don't believe it would be appropriate to talk about it.

I made the mistake of writing something very, very short about Obama for this website that I write fiction for, and my father told me never do that again. And he was right. I have nothing to add to a political conversation because it's not my area.

I listened to Bill Bennett and tons of other talk show hosts who talked about that and other policies and started branching out and caring about other issues in regards to politics.

Maybe it's true that people with less extreme views who are also interested in public affairs have been driven out by a marketplace that doesn't offer them anything of the tone they want to listen to.

I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already.

I'm not a big politics guy.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

A man should always be drunk when he talks politics – it's the only way in which to make them important.

In 2003, I wrote a New York Times best-seller called 'Shut Up & Sing,' in which I criticized celebrities like the Dixie Chicks & Barbra Streisand who were trashing then-President George W. Bush. I have used a variation of that title for more than 15 years to respond to performers who sound off on politics.

I was 100 percent political in the '80s - the first time around, let's call it, my first life as an artist.

Politics is a big no-no for me. I'm not a person who can go through that journey in life.

I am an artist with very strong social and political concerns.

When it comes to politics, unless it's an issue that's really close to home and you feel strongly about, I just don't think you should really talk about it.