Records don't have to be perfect. Everyone doesn't have to move left when everyone else moves left. I love hearing the mistakes.
I think one of the coolest things you can do is disappear for a while, because it gives you the chance to re-emerge. To sort of pounce out of the jungle.
When you expect anything from music, you expect too much.
Music is the only thing I've ever known that doesn't have any rules at all.
You got to risk something to be able to give something, you know?
Sometimes you actually get caught in the web of things where people are talking about... what kind of breakfast cereal you like.
I like to move forward and notice things along the roadside that indicate where I should go.
I'm a fairly upbeat and happy guy, you know? I don't like people that feel sorry for themselves, and I traditionally stay away from people like that.
Vinyl has gotten to the point where it's exclusively for the collector, I guess.
If you wanna be famous, then it's okay if the music is fake, because fame isn't real.
The first time Kyuss was about to get signed, they're like, 'We'd like to sign you!' and we just said, 'No! Forget it!' because we thought people were always trying to invade everything.
I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones.
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.
All I really care about is that I'm being honest and I'm real and I'm coming from a real place. There's a part of me that's a total cad and a part of me that's also a family man.
I don't mind saying what's on my mind.
So the thing is to put out music for music's sake.
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.
Guitar solos, to me, should be a really articulate way to make fun of guitar solos.
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.
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.'
