Top 35 Josh Homme Quotes

The language that we use now impacts on the ability to vote, it impacts on the marketplace; instead of making things clear, it makes it more confusing. I think we need to stop using neutral language and speak in straighter terms. So when you agree to something, you actually get what you agreed to in the first place.

I have this coat that I got in a nefarious deal years ago. It’s a Johnny Carson coat, and I’ve had it remade three times. It’s mine all the time. Carson was a real man, and I thought, ‘Coats for real men by real men? I’m in.’

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.

Well, I think what’s most important is the idea of something.

So the thing is to put out music for music’s sake.

I like when people take chances.

People don’t want their actors acting like musicians.

I look at my career as a body of work, not just Queens of the Stone Age records. I’m in Eagles of Death Metal, I’m in Them Crooked Vultures; I make records with other people.

I think people get fixated on the example of an idea.

When you get sick and it’s extended, you go through all these mental phases, and everyone handles them differently.

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.

Ultimately, words are only words, and its only the music that stands by itself.

The first time Kyuss was about to get signed, they’re like, ‘We’d like to sign you!’ and we just said, ‘No! Forget it!’ because we thought people were always trying to invade everything.

All I really care about is that I’m being honest and I’m real and I’m coming from a real place. There’s a part of me that’s a total cad and a part of me that’s also a family man.

I felt really free, like I could do anything, because no one would know what to expect.

Vinyl has gotten to the point where it’s exclusively for the collector, I guess.

You got to risk something to be able to give something, you know?

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.

Really the topic of breakfast cereal is generally a very boring one.

Music’s supposed to be real. When it really touches you, it’s supposed to be real.

I don’t mind saying what’s on my mind.

I like to make the music that I really love. You’re supposed to make your favorite music that no one else played, and I’d like to just keep it at that and not really change it at all.

I think if you play music and you join a scene you’re already too late.

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 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. You know what I mean?

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.

Any band on their first couple records is just trying to keep up with their inspiration.

Making people uncomfortable is one of my hobbies.

I think everyone is trying to figure out who they are and their own thing.

I’m not so much of a joiner.

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.

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 think people believe I’m some kind of evil dictator sometimes. But I don’t much care about that.

I’ve worked at a deli, I’ve worked construction, I’ve worked a few different jobs.

By the time you get to your sixth record, some of the benefits of being in a band are grander than ever, but some of the obstacles are just massive. You deal with these lateral subjects, and all that is left is the elephant in the room.