I’m not a martyr, just a musician who dies for your sins. Oh, that’s what a martyr is? Very well then, I am a martyr, if you insist.

I believe that any great work of art is, in itself, a form of resistance against a sense of powerlessness.

When I was born, my mother didn’t know what to name me. Eventually she named me after Thom Yorke.

I’m baking stories, and singing cookies, oh the tonderous wimes!

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.

I don’t think young people are as demoralized as the media and government would like us to think. The obvious sign of that is how strong and how close personal connections are and how much people are able to build a life for themselves, despite all this stuff that’s been thrown at them.

The more you try to erase me The more, the more The more that I appear.

The thing I remember most about America is that it’s silly. That can be quite a relief at times.

Maybe I’m not the gloaming witches smart, but at least I’m not our stupid liffey hamburger mongrels.

In America, there seems to be more focus on the idea that it’s important to do things differently. In Britain, it’s not an issue.