Joshua Homme Quotes

I like to keep my feet on the sidewalk.

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 listen to whatever they think is good.

I think more people need to make out.

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

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.

I write about my life and the lives of people around me and situations, and the idea's for each record to try to make you a better person, to understand the life that you lead more.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I'm not so much of a joiner.

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

The beauty's in the scars.

I like when people take chances.

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

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

Banks are kinda cool, you put some money in there. It should be kinda vaguely sexy, but it's not.

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

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 like to write about things that are dark or twisted. Where the poetry seems to be is when you start in the dark and reach for the light - that's what makes it not depressing to me.

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

When you try to put everything into music, there's no room left to try to make you think we're cool. We know you think we're cool.

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.

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

Records don't have to be perfect.

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.

A homemade affair that's just in time for Halloween.

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.

Guitar solos, to me, should be a really articulate way to make fun of guitar solos.

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.

All I really care about is that I'm being honest and I'm real and I'm coming from a real place.

It's fun to toy around with press stuff a little bit, because in many ways it's not a real world.

I'm not politically correct; I never said I was.

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

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

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

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