Best Josh Homme Quotes & Sayings

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 think people believe I'm some kind of evil dictator sometimes. But I don't much care about that. — Josh Homme

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

I like to move forward and notice things along the roadside that indicate where I should go. — Josh Homme

I think I learned years ago when I went to Hawaii that you don't bring puka shells back. You've got to be careful of your vacation purchases. — Josh Homme

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

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. — Josh Homme

Sometimes hard decisions have to be made, and sometimes wonderful decisions have to be made. You've got to be willing to make them all. — Josh Homme

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

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. — 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

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

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

I'm not so much of a joiner. — Josh Homme

I think more people need to make out. — Josh Homme

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

I think the best thing I could ever teach my daughter is that she's not an object or a trophy, and that she can trust in herself and believe in herself and that you are not your things, and you are not your job. — Josh Homme

People don't want their actors acting like musicians. — Josh Homme

I like when people take chances. — Josh Homme

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

I've always had a sick sense of humor, and I've always wanted that to permeate the music because I don't take myself seriously. I take the music seriously, but I know I'm not God's gift to anyone except my mom. — 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 know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones. — Josh Homme

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

If you wanna be famous, then it's okay if the music is fake, because fame isn't real. — Josh Homme

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

I'm not politically correct; I never said I was. — Josh Homme

You wanna be there for everybody, but it's just not possible. — Josh Homme

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. — Josh Homme

When you expect anything from music, you expect too much. — Josh Homme

Making people uncomfortable is one of my hobbies. I'm always hoping that half the people get the joke and the other half are the joke. — Josh Homme