I think artists can influence ...

I think artists can influence only through making music that challenges people, excites them and flips them out. Music that repeats what you know in ever-decreasing derivation, that's unchallenging and unstimulating, deadens our minds, our imagination and our ability to see beyond the hell we find ourselves in.
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 Thom Yorke

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My mother tried to abort me herself with a coathanger, hence my wobbly eye.
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When I was born, my mother didn't know what to name me. Eventually she named me after Thom Yorke.
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If there are political programs on TV, yet it takes an artist to actually energize political debate, that tells you something really quite frightening about the level of the political debate happening on mainstream channels - right-wing-biased mothers.
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I actually saw the loch ness monster when I was 9. She was big as a house. Want to know who the loch ness monster is? It's your obese mother. Burn mother****er
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I know I'm 38 but I insist that santa claus exists and he raped my mother when I was 9.
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