Joshua Homme Quotes (31 Quotes)



    Well, when you're just living your life and not watching anyone else's, you write about your thing and hopefully it's something people can latch onto.

    I don't necessarily think about it so much, because I don't want to ruin the possibility of something cool by thinking about it.

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

    Independent minded girls that are naked sounds like a great start to something.


    I don't want to start a label, actually, but Man's Ruin was going under and they were having some trouble doing what they'd always stood for.

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

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

    I think part of what happens is that small labels want to get bigger. And bigger is not better.

    I'm always looking for cool stuff to do because that's what we're supposed to do, ya know?

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

    I think people listen to whatever they think is good.

    I think our thing is that you commit to go in and try to sound as original as possible. We just do our own thing because that's the obligation

    I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones.

    I asked my friend Greg Andersson to introduce me to people that can distribute my album.

    We are all the same in most ways and their is only a few things that make you and I different and you should only accept the way of those things.

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

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

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



    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.

    Not everyone deserves to be a musician, you get lucky enough to be one.


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

    Sometimes you actually get caught in the web of things where people are talking about... what kind of breakfast cereal you like.

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

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

    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.

    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.

    I think sometimes when I watch some of these DVDs of live concerts, it's just the whole concert and that's it You know I want to do extra stuff.


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