Josh Homme
Josh Homme
Joshua Michael "Josh" Homme is an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor. He is the founder and only continuous member of the rock band Queens of the Stone Age, in which he sings and plays guitar, as well as occasionally playing piano, drums, and bass. He also serves as the band's primary songwriter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth17 May 1973
CityJoshua Tree, CA
CountryUnited States of America
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 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.
The first record I bought was a Carl Perkins record, because I saw him at The Festival at Sandpoint, Idaho. I loved Elvis and I found out that he wrote 'Blue Suede Shoes'... so connecting that experience of going to see him play was pretty awesome. That's when I realised I wanted to play guitar.
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.
I've worked at a deli, I've worked construction, I've worked a few different jobs.
Queens of the Stone Age: A Stone Unturned.
People think that when they're playing it safe, they're trying to preserve what they have, but there is no preservation of what you have in music. There's no safety in music.
People don't want their actors acting like musicians.
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.
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.
Vinyl has gotten to the point where it's exclusively for the collector, I guess.
Well, I think what's most important is the idea of something.
Why would you choose being bitter over choosing to make music? Being bitter is gross. It doesn't amount to anything.
I think people believe I'm some kind of evil dictator sometimes. But I don't much care about that.