Thom Yorke says Radiohead reunion tour caused “massive” crash in self-confidence: “It took me months”

Thom Yorke has revealed that Radiohead ’s 2025 reunion tour led to a “massive” crash in his self-confidence that took months to recover from.

READ MORE: Radiohead live in London: a generous and visceral hit parade (of sorts) The band announced their long-awaited live return in September last year , marking their first shows together in over seven years.

They went on to play 20 arena dates across Madrid, Bologna, London, Copenhagen and Berlin that November and December.

Now, in a new conversation with Harry Styles for Rolling Stone , Yorke has spoken about the more difficult aftermath of the comeback.

The subject arose as Styles asked him about becoming more willing to embrace and celebrate his past work, both through the Radiohead tour and by accepting the Academy Fellowship at the 2026 Ivor Novello Awards .

“You’re answering this better than I can do,” Yorke replied.

“You’re right, that I’m in a slightly better place nowadays, but I’d be lying if I didn’t say that something like getting an Ivor Novello fellowship was not deeply confusing for me.

“I admire a lot of the people that they’ve given those awards to.

Some of these people are my heroes.

But I have a very, very strange relationship to… God, this is really hard to explain.

I have a very strange relationship to that element of my work.” Yorke said he finds looking forward creatively much easier to process.

“I find it hard to believe in it,” he continued.

“The moving-forward thing, that’s what I believe in.

That’s easy to believe in, because it’s new.