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. – Josh Homme
Why would you choose being bitter over choosing to make music? Being bitter is gross. It doesn’t amount to anything. – Josh Homme
Any band on their first couple records is just trying to keep up with their inspiration. – Josh Homme
I know there are some labels that put out music for art’s sake, but I don’t know which ones. – Josh Homme
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. – Josh Homme
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. – Josh Homme
I’m in three bands, and I love to produce records of other bands, and I have a family that I love. I wanted to be everything for everybody and do all of that… I think I just really beat myself up until I got really sick and needed surgery, because it was physically manifesting itself. – Josh Homme
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. – Josh Homme
I like to move forward and notice things along the roadside that indicate where I should go. – Josh Homme
I’m a fairly upbeat and happy guy, you know? I don’t like people that feel sorry for themselves, and I traditionally stay away from people like that. – Josh Homme
I’m always looking for cool stuff to do because that’s what we’re supposed to do, ya know? – Josh Homme
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. – Josh Homme
I think part of what happens is that small labels want to get bigger. And bigger is not better. – Josh Homme
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. – Josh Homme
I think people believe I’m some kind of evil dictator sometimes. But I don’t much care about that. – Josh Homme
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. – Josh Homme
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.’ – Josh Homme
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. – Josh Homme
If you’re trying to do something different, you can’t ask someone to help, because they’ll want to make it not different. – Josh Homme
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. – Josh Homme