Thom Yorke Quotes

I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo. What the hell am I doing here? I don't belong here.

The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally.

As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider.

I've always felt myself to be an outsider. I've always felt awkward.

Everyone has strange teenage years. It's not like I can claim some particularly unique set of high school horrors. I think I was just an awkward kid who never felt comfortable in his own skin. I think I was alone a lot by circumstance and then by choice.

The one thing I would like to get across about my whole feeling regarding high school is how I was when I was fifteen. Gawky. Always a hem hanging down, or strap loose, or a pimple on my chin. I never knew what to do with my hair. I was a mess. And I still carry that fifteen-year-old girl around now. A piece of me still believes I'm the girl nobody dances with.

I can never be important to any one.' 'What is to prevent you?' 'Every thing — my situation — my foolishness and awkwardness.

Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when I look,each one starts! when I speak, I offend; then Im silent & passive & lose every friend. Then my verse I dishonour, my pictures despise, my person degrade & my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; all my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. Im either too low or too highly prized; when elate I m envy'd, when meek Im despis'd

I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.

I felt all the things that other teenagers felt. I was insecure in lots of ways, over-confident in others. I was very emotional. Excitable.

I always believed I was an ugly duckling in a family of swans, you know? I was such a black sheep, and it was the same way in high school... I was just kind of that awkward theater kid with a bunch of athletes... it was very 'Glee.'

When I was growing up, I always wanted to be somebody else and live somewhere else. I've always felt a little uncomfortable around people.

I think I'm dull. I would rather watch other people.

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt.

I've always been a geek and slightly awkward... slightly umm... I was never the cool kid at school.

I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.

Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am.

I've never really fit in anywhere.

I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere.

I feel incredibly awkward as a human being and incredibly teenaged still.

I think we all feel like misfits when we open our mouth sometimes, you know?

A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing.

I still feel like a nerd.

I tried to be really tough when I was younger. I felt I had to stand up for myself. I never felt like I fit in.