Joshua Homme
The beauty's in the scars.Collection: Scar
I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums, unless they're divorced and trying to get back at their wife.Collection: Kids
Banks are kinda cool, you put some money in there. It should be kinda vaguely sexy, but it's not.Collection: Sexy
I write about my life and the lives of people around me and situations, and the idea's for each record to try to make you a better person, to understand the life that you lead more.Collection: Writing
I think the notion of understanding each other is a relief. It's not a thing you get with everyone you hang out with.Collection: Thinking
I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick...maker.Collection: Selfish
I'm not a militant, drug-taking freak! I'm sensitive.Collection: Drug
The Queens Of The Stone Age have teamed up with multimedia wizard brain Liam Lynch to make the video for 'Burn The Witch' , a home-made affair that's just in time for Halloween. For the band, playing both the roles of cast and crew paid ginormous dividends, in the form of a video that cuts the heads off all contemporaries .Collection: Queens
I hate that sense of entitlement or the sense of business crawling into playing music.Collection: Hate
Foolishly play with the fires of rumor, only to risk being burned by its treacherous flames.Collection: Fire
Sometimes you've got to draw a line between having all the options and being a slave to the things, using them every time you play the guitar. I'm trying to keep a real inconsistency to the pedals so that it is something new every time.Collection: Real
I break my back for music because it's something that I love, but I'm not going to break my back for a bank. I wouldn't want to be an ATM repairman; there are some things that just aren't worth it.Collection: Music
All I really care about is that I'm being honest and I'm real and I'm coming from a real place.Collection: Real
It's fun to toy around with press stuff a little bit, because in many ways it's not a real world.Collection: Fun
Independent minded girls that are naked sounds like a great start to something.Collection: Girl
A homemade affair that's just in time for Halloween.Collection: Halloween
I've been playing live gigs since I was 13. I really don't know how to do anything else, and please God strike me down.Collection: Gigs
I like to write about things that are dark or twisted. Where the poetry seems to be is when you start in the dark and reach for the light - that's what makes it not depressing to me.Collection: Depressing
The music as a whole is selfish, but the musicians aren't," "The song may go on forever but it's not about competition within the band; it's about playing as a band.Collection: Song
When you try to put everything into music, there's no room left to try to make you think we're cool. We know you think we're cool.Collection: Thinking
After all, nothing helps to write lyrics more than to mess around with the language.Collection: Writing
Records don't have to be perfect.Collection: Perfect