Josh Homme
I've always had a sick sense of humor, and I've always wanted that to permeate the music because I don't take myself seriously. I take the music seriously, but I know I'm not God's gift to anyone except my mom.Collection: Humor
Looking for equality everywhere is a huge mistake because equals are terrible and boring. But a sense of fairness and justice is a totally different thing and a much more complex thing.Collection: Equality
I think one of the coolest things you can do is disappear for a while, because it gives you the chance to re-emerge. To sort of pounce out of the jungle.Collection: Chance
I don't think it's good to run on anger, but it's really great when that's the first couple of gallons in your tank - when you've had enough, and you're just pissed off enough to go for it. In a lot of ways, that sort of environment can be a catapult for a great situation.Collection: Anger
Sometimes Queens' music is dark, but somehow it's ok to deliver it with a smile on your face because thing's are still going to kick in.Collection: Smile
I'm always looking for cool stuff to do because that's what we're supposed to do, ya know?Collection: Cool
When you expect anything from music, you expect too much.
Really the topic of breakfast cereal is generally a very boring one.
I think everyone is trying to figure out who they are and their own thing.
Making people uncomfortable is one of my hobbies. I'm always hoping that half the people get the joke and the other half are the joke.
Music is the only thing I've ever known that doesn't have any rules at all.
I think people get fixated on the example of an idea.
Vinyl has gotten to the point where it's exclusively for the collector, I guess.
I'm not so much of a joiner.
I think you can separate yourself from your fears. You know what you should do, and it's just scary to do it. But I'd hate to let the fact that I'm scared to do it make me not do it. It ends up defining you. Because the moves you make are then based on what you don't want to do.
I think I learned years ago when I went to Hawaii that you don't bring puka shells back. You've got to be careful of your vacation purchases.
I've always considered myself a workaholic... The way I work, I have to turn myself upside down and hang myself by my ankles and wring myself out like a wet sweater, and I have to do that with other people, too, because I think that's where something good comes out.
People think that when they're playing it safe, they're trying to preserve what they have, but there is no preservation of what you have in music. There's no safety in music.
I like to move forward and notice things along the roadside that indicate where I should go.
Sometimes hard decisions have to be made, and sometimes wonderful decisions have to be made. You've got to be willing to make them all.
Ultimately, words are only words, and its only the music that stands by itself.
I felt really free, like I could do anything, because no one would know what to expect.
I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones.
I think part of what happens is that small labels want to get bigger. And bigger is not better.
I'm just going to put out three or four releases a year and make it so that if you like the Desert Sessions, then you'll definitely like everything else.
So the thing is to put out music for music's sake.
I like to keep my feet on the sidewalk.
I like when people take chances.
You got to risk something to be able to give something, you know?
Well, I think what's most important is the idea of something.
The expression of this idea is Queens of the Stone Age, but the idea is that you will never slack on the music and will always humble yourself at the alter of Rock.
Not everyone deserves to be a musician, you get lucky enough to be one.
Sometimes you actually get caught in the web of things where people are talking about... what kind of breakfast cereal you like.
I think more people need to make out.
I think people listen to whatever they think is good.
I think if you play music and you join a scene you're already too late.
I asked my friend Greg Andersson to introduce me to people that can distribute my album.
If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different.
I've always heard music in my head since I was a little kid, so I've always played towards that. If I felt bad, that's what I did.
Guitar solos, to me, should be a really articulate way to make fun of guitar solos.
If you wanna be famous, then it's okay if the music is fake, because fame isn't real.
I don't mind saying what's on my mind.
I've worked at a deli, I've worked construction, I've worked a few different jobs.
If I was just in one band, I would have a problem with the amount of time between records because I don't want to wave one flag. I just want to be part of something cool.
The problem is that music is selfish in that you need to make it for yourself, so that you can give it away, and those two things don't jive. I needed to find the right reason to play that had the magic and mystery and excitement that made me want to play in the first place.
Any band on their first couple records is just trying to keep up with their inspiration.
The first record I bought was a Carl Perkins record, because I saw him at The Festival at Sandpoint, Idaho. I loved Elvis and I found out that he wrote 'Blue Suede Shoes'... so connecting that experience of going to see him play was pretty awesome. That's when I realised I wanted to play guitar.
When you get sick and it's extended, you go through all these mental phases, and everyone handles them differently.
Why would you choose being bitter over choosing to make music? Being bitter is gross. It doesn't amount to anything.
Making people uncomfortable is one of my hobbies.