Latest Joshua Homme Quotes from Interviews

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• The beauty's in the scars.

  Joshua Homme

  Scar

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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.

  Joshua Homme

  Love You, Your Favorite

  Source: pitchfork.com

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

  Joshua Homme

  Fun, Real, World

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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.

  Joshua Homme

  Kids, Eight, Guitar

  "Queens of the Stone Age". Interview with David Raposa, pitchfork.com. July 10, 2005.

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

  Joshua Homme

  Sexy, Should

  "Queens of the Stone Age". Interview with David Raposa, pitchfork.com. July 10, 2005.

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

  Joshua Homme

  Selfish, Thinking, Events

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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.

  Joshua Homme

  Writing, Ideas, People

  "Queens of the Stone Age". Interview with David Raposa, pitchfork.com. July 10, 2005.

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

  Joshua Homme

  Hate, Playing Music, Entitlement

  "Queens of the Stone Age". Interview with David Raposa, pitchfork.com. July 10, 2005.

• Records don't have to be perfect.

  Joshua Homme

  Perfect, Records

  "Queens of the Stone Age". Interview with David Raposa, pitchfork.com. July 10, 2005.

• 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.

  Joshua Homme

  Depressing, Writing, Dark

  "Queens of the Stone Age". Interview with David Raposa, pitchfork.com. July 10, 2005.

• 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.

  Joshua Homme

  Gigs, Strikes, Please

  "Queens of the Stone Age". Interview with David Raposa, pitchfork.com. July 10, 2005.

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

  Joshua Homme

  Writing, Helping, Language

  "Queens of the Stone Age". Interview with David Raposa, pitchfork.com. July 10, 2005.

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

  Joshua Homme

  Thinking, Understanding, Relief

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

• 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.

  Joshua Homme

  Thinking, Make You Think, Trying

  Source: www.rollingstone.com