Josh Homme

"I want a new mistake, lose is more than hesitate."

Joshua Michael Homme III (born May 17, 1973), better known as Josh Homme, is an American rock musician, and record producer. He is the guitarist and a founding member of the stoner rock band Kyuss, as well as the founding and only continuous member of the hard rock band Queens of the Stone Age (QOTSA), in which he sings, plays guitar, and serves as the band's primary songwriter.

Sourced

• Music is my religion.
  • "JOSHUA HOMME: “IT DOESN'T MATTER IF IT’S BEEN SAID, IT’S NEVER BEEN SAID BY ME”", Antiquet (August 27th, 2009)

WHAG A GRTA BAND YOPU GOT THERE.!!!!!!!!1THATS ALL I GOT TRO SAY. YOU GOT GOOD MUSIC, I DONT KNOW YOUY FROM ADAM BUT I LIKE YOUR MUSIC SO THAT IS ALL THAT MATERS,.YOUR MUSIC IS COOL.IF I WAS REALLY GAY,I'D WANT TO FUCK YOU UP THE ASS!!! HEY,IAND I LIKE ANTHONY BOURBAIN SAHOW TOO, YOU MAKEW THE MUSIC FOR THATS?THATS A GOOD ONE TOO !! YOU THE MASTERMIND BEHINDS THE MUSIC,AREN'T YOU?//

• The rules were always there. There was always one rule; don't break the golden rule, which is if someone says that they love your music, so they love you and you're amazing; you're not amazing. You're not amazing. It's not you, they don't know you, you know? It's not that way. So don't believe that. I don't believe that about myself, and I don't believe when someone likes me too much or hates me too much. I don't believe they know what they're talking about.
  • "JOSHUA HOMME: “IT DOESN'T MATTER IF IT’S BEEN SAID, IT’S NEVER BEEN SAID BY ME”", Antiquet (August 27th, 2009)

• I am not a perfectionist at all. I love failure. I love mistakes. I love the bizarre. I love characters. I love missing teeth. I love beauty because your eyes are off-center. And how can you notice that in the buzz of the city? So I like the emptiness.
  • Reported in Jonathan Horsley, "Queens of the Stone Age: Josh Homme Q&A", Decibel Magazine (July 22nd, 2011).

• I think now is the best thing that you’ll ever get, and that’s all you’ll ever get.
  • Reported in Jonathan Horsley, "Queens of the Stone Age: Josh Homme Q&A", Decibel Magazine (July 22nd, 2011).

• Music is never wrong. You might not like it, but it’s never wrong. It's such a great way of explaining stuff.
  • Reported in Jay Babcock, "MUSIC IS NEVER WRONG: A visit with Josh Homme & John Paul Jones of Them Crooked Vultures", Arthur Magazine (October 15, 2009).

• Whenever someone says, 'We're all one,' I've always been like 'No we're not, and that's what's great, so stop saying that or everyone's gonna start believing you.' But yeah, as we all look at the same projection on the wall, we do become one, and I started to realize the horror of that. And I make no attempt to try to alter it from being that; my thing is more about trying to apply some principles of magic—how to walk between the raindrops—and take advantage of a situation like that, because it’s the only choice you have.
  • Reported in Jay Babcock, "MUSIC IS NEVER WRONG: A visit with Josh Homme & John Paul Jones of Them Crooked Vultures", Arthur Magazine (October 15, 2009).

• My years of reading P.T. Barnum is finally coming into play. [snaps fingers] This notion of saying nothing, of keeping a secret, and doing it in a way that's not elitist but that's like, You wanna come in here and hear? [whispers] We have a secret. That's all that I can tell you. But you're involved. You know?
  • Reported in Jay Babcock, "MUSIC IS NEVER WRONG: A visit with Josh Homme & John Paul Jones of Them Crooked Vultures", Arthur Magazine (October 15, 2009).

• Music is the best way that I know to say the things that are difficult to say in English. Words get in the way sometimes.
  • Reported in Jay Babcock, "MUSIC IS NEVER WRONG: A visit with Josh Homme & John Paul Jones of Them Crooked Vultures", Arthur Magazine (October 15, 2009).

• I get scared all the time. I try not to let it have any impact on the decision of whether to do it or not. 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.
  • Reported in Eddy Lawrence, "Josh Homme: Interview", Time Out London (February 5, 2008).

• Well, I come from a long, long line of smartasses. Smartass is allergic to dumbass. It’s actually a physical allergy, as in you’re repulsed by dumbasses.
  • Reported in Eddy Lawrence, "Josh Homme: Interview", Time Out London (February 5, 2008).

• Yeah, I can make all the tequila in a bottle disappear. It’s a talent. Nothing comes easy and talent is something you get but, if you don’t develop it, it becomes like an apple; you keep taking bites of it until it’s gone. So you have to plant the seeds. Then you have the orchard. And then you have Jonestown.’
  • Reported in Eddy Lawrence, "Josh Homme: Interview", Time Out London (February 5, 2008).

• My favorite music is hooky, quirky, arty, dark, surprising, heavy, groovy, soft, emotional but not emo. It wears a sweater because it’s cold, not because it's stylistically there.
  • Reported in Jay Babcock, "JOSHUA HOMME: People say [record] labels are evil. No, they’re just lame.", Arthur Magazine (December 4, 2007).

• I THINK OF INTERSCOPE AND ALL THESE LABELS AS THE BIGGEST FUCKING IDIOTS ON THE PLANET. And print that in capitals, because they can’t do anything to me.
  • Reported in Jay Babcock, "JOSHUA HOMME: People say [record] labels are evil. No, they’re just lame.", Arthur Magazine (December 4, 2007).

• And the fact of the matter is that everyone should play music because it's such a beautiful gift. It's my religion. But maybe not everyone should play it in front of me. It's okay to play music in your rocking chair or whatever.
  • Reported in Jay Babcock, "JOSHUA HOMME: People say [record] labels are evil. No, they’re just lame.", Arthur Magazine (December 4, 2007).

• I'm also beyond pissed, as in not pissed, because I kinda figure they just don’t know better by now. It’s like when a dog shits in the house, you can hit 'em with a paper but they really don’t know what the fuck happened. How can retarded kids know to not throw a Frisbee at the forehead of another retarded kid?
  • Reported in Jay Babcock, "JOSHUA HOMME: People say [record] labels are evil. No, they’re just lame.", Arthur Magazine (December 4, 2007).

• I think that provided us to do it this time, because it's like okay, we've cleared that air, you know, we're friends and we respect that he's the best rock drummer in the world, you know. You can be as good, but you’re not better than Dave Grohl.
  • "Josh Homme Interview", The Fade.org (Aug. 2002).

• ...but I'm also a father, a husband and a raging alcoholic...
  • "Josh Homme Talks Tour Superstition", "O2 Academy" (June 2011)

• It's like catching a fish, you know what I mean? It's the fish that's beautiful, not the fisherman. And I think whoever hasn't understood that attitude in Queens is not here any more. And if I ever think the fisherman's better than the fish, I hope someone fuckin' fires me too.
  • "Dazed & Confused Magazine | Josh Homme | Sept'10", Dazed & Confused Magazine (September 2010)

• In Kyuss and Queens, we allow people to tape our shows, whether it's audio, video or both. You're doing that tonight, but you're no different than someone who buys the ticket. Because the exchanging of music is what should happen. It's one of the only things I like about The Grateful Dead, it's "do you want a tape from '67 on June 2nd? You can get one". I probably wouldn't like the music on the tape, but it's still possible. My problem is that people sell our live shows for too much money. They should be the cost of the video and shipping. And in turn, MP3 take a record that I've spent money and time and put so much love into, take it, and just give it away. But they make the money. MP3 and Napster, they make tons of money, but they say "Oh, it's about free exchange!", but that just sounds like just another jack-off thief in the dark, that doesn't have guts enough to admit what they're doing. I had someone say something interesting to me in Canada, "Well, would you rather have the label fuck you over, or the fans fuck you over?". And I just said, "Neither!". And when it gets posed to me in such a way I sit there and think, "You know, what am I doing? Maybe I should skip through the countryside, playing flute (?)". Because MP3 certainly is like [stabbing sound and motion]. If you're an unsigned band, then it really helps, but then, you know? I don't wanna censor anyone, and I'm no one's daddy, I'm not going to monitor the internet, but I think there's a moral side to it too; I don't steal from you, you don't steal from me. Seems fair, you know?
  • "4-12-2000 Josh Homme interview" "Phillipshalle, Dusseldorf" (December 4, 2000)

• But the truth is, I don't have ADD. I have OKHY: OK, hell yeah.
  • "Queens of the Stone Age: Josh Homme comes back from the brink" The Guardian (June 1, 2013)

• Risk nothing, get nothing. If you wanna be famous, then it's OK if the music is fake, because fame isn't real.
  • "Queens of the Stone Age: Josh Homme comes back from the brink" The Guardian (June 1, 2013)

• But I like to be a real man because I have a son and a daughter and they should know what that's like. It's OK to not be macho. But it's not OK to be a pussy.
  • "Queens of the Stone Age: Josh Homme comes back from the brink" The Guardian (June 1, 2013)

• You can't upstroke yourself into toughness.
  • "Josh Homme - Guitar Moves - Episode 3" Noisey (May 29, 2013)

• (In response to the question; "What are you going to tell a ten year old who wants to play guitar?") For me that's easy; when you expect anything from music, you expect too much. So you play for yourself, you play to enjoy it and you make the most of it for you, period. You don't - I never thought I would be doing this now. I feel so lucky to be doing this now - I can't believe this is what I do all the time. I know I'm not the greatest guitar player in the world, but I just love it. And I hope that's the only reason I'm here, you know? Because I think - I honestly think that that's enough.
  • "Josh Homme - Guitar Moves - Episode 3" Noisey (May 29, 2013)

Stage banter

All stage banter is sourced from Josh Homme Is Awesome

• Never heckle Joshua Michael Homme III.

• Hey you, with the stupid fuckin' tattoo. This ain't a place to fight, you dipshit. You wanna fight, go to a gay bar. Go to a fuckin' gay bar if you wanna fight, you understand? 'Cause I will fuck you in the ass. Ik pak je klootzak, ik pak je vieze lul. Got me? You better, or you'll get me. Alright, this song goes out that that asshole. Everybody party and have a good time, fuck that dick. Let's do this.

• (in response to someone shouting "I miss Nick (Oliveri)") Well, if you miss Nick, you can go out to the parking lot and go fuck yourself. Maybe you should get started immediately. And maybe if you're really lucky, he'll beat the shit out of you too. Because that's what he likes to do to girls. Do you feel satisfied about making you comment now? Are you happy that everyone looked at you and know what you look like? See that, Jesus Christ. Yeah, I remember my first beer too.

• This is my fuckin' stage!

EDIT- I THINK JOSHE HOMME IS FUCKING COOOOL!!!!!!!!!!

EDIT- I WANT TO FUCK JOSHE HOMME UP THE ASS ! I AM THRE NUMBER 1 FAN EVER !!!

EDIT #3- SORRY FOR SPAMMING, BUT I JUST LOOOOOOOOOOVE JOSHE HOMME,HE MY IDOL ~!!!!!!

• (during "Feel Good Hit of the Summer") I wanna tell you something. I'm never gonna give you up, I'm never gonna let you down. I'm never gonna run around and desert you.

• (during "Feel Good Hit of the Summer") They tried to put me in rehab too, but that shit didn't work. Nicotine, valium, vicodin, marijuana, ecstasy and alcohol. Nicotine, valium, vicodin, marijuana, ecstasy and alcohol. Nicotine, valium, vicodin, marijuana, ecstasy and alcohol. I cannot be killed by anything.

External links

• Josh Homme's Tumblr