5 quotes from Thom Yorke’s Marc Maron WTF interview

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Thom Yorke met up with Marc Maron at the famous west coast recording studio to record and episode of WTF. Check out some quotes from the interview below about Thom dodging riot horses, and making bad paintings of Jesus and listen to the entire podcast here.

22:14, Marc interrupts Thom talking about politics to say how he thinks his GPS voice fits well with Atoms for Peace:

A very interesting thing happened when I was listening to the Atoms for Peace album in the car ride coming over because I had it plugged into my phone and I had the phone plugged into the stereo, but I also had the GPS going. And so you had your beautiful lyrical rhythms and occasionally “turn right at laurel cannon” and it almost felt like some weird mix you know like “this is the GPS mix.” And it seems to fold right in! It kind of works because there’s a sort of beautiful tone set by the lyrical thrust if the album and it is about direction! This is the only direction I have during this song.

26:11, Thom on angering Margaret Thatcher with a group protesting student loans:

Next thing we know the shields part and the horses just charge straight towards us. And there was this girl I saw who was pregnant had her leg broken. Everyone ran screaming, the policement on the horses had batons and were wacking indiscriminately, people’s heads. And they were cuffing arresting whoever they could find. It was insane.

28:23, On playing a show in Phoenix with the heated political climate:

The stoners and the E heads and the alt musos everyone was there in a big soup and it kicked off through the music and it was really really amazing.

35:11, On his influences growing up:

I loved Queen I thought they were great when I was really small. And they’re pretty silly as well. As I hit a teenager the band that really really changed my life was REM.

46:23, Thom talks about getting into painting at art school:

They kind of kicked me out of painting. Because I went AWOL for a term and then turned up and all I’d done were paintings of Jesus and they were appalling.

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