Joshua Homme Quotes

I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick ... maker.

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.

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.

I think the notion of understanding each other is a relief. It's not a thing you get with everyone you hang out with.

Ask yourself
Will i burn in Hell?
Then write it down
and cast it in the well
There they are
The mob it cries for blood
To twist the tale
Into fore wood
Fan the flames
With a little lie
Then turn your cheek
Until the fire dies
The skin it peels
Like the truth, away
What it was
I will never say...

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.

I'm not a militant, drug-taking freak! I'm sensitive.

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 .

Foolishly play with the fires of rumor, only to risk being burned by its treacherous flames.

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.

I hate that sense of entitlement or the sense of business crawling into playing music.

After all, nothing helps to write lyrics more than to mess around with the language.