When did we start believing God wants to send us to safe places to do easy things?
Ambition makes you look pretty ugly Kicking, squealing Gucci little piggy.
Sometimes I stand in store windows and pretend to be a mannequin. People are like 'hey, that mannequin looks alot like thom yorke' Then I start to sing The Gloaming and lurch toward them and they run off horrified.
I've been working hard on a new song, it's titled "Frozen Piggy Pudding". It's about how the government is full of pigs who eat pudding all day. Oh look a frisbee, allo' govna.
When I was born, my mother didn't know what to name me. Eventually she named me after 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.
The society, is, a dishwasher, where all the water, is, dead chipmunk blood. God I'm brilliant.
My dad is a much more flamboyant character than I am. I think that's why I couldn't see myself going into straight acting. I always just felt daft.
I'm suspicious of full-replacement programs - that is, pronouncements that one way of doing something will entirely supplant another, and that in fact we have to hurry the replacement along.
There seems to be a lot of excitement around something that, to me, is a yawn, frankly.
I met a bunch of people and they said, "We're gonna do a show [Second City]. " So we would buy the theater out and do a show, and we did that for five years and we ended up becoming popular. It was before sketch comedy was hipster-time - when you would hand out a flier, people would roll their eyes. Now it's kind of cool.