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The beauty's in the scars.
I'm not so much of a joiner.
I like when people take chances.
Records don't have to be perfect.
I think more people need to make out.
I don't mind saying what's on my mind.
I like to keep my feet on the sidewalk.
I'm not politically correct; I never said I was.
A homemade affair that's just in time for Halloween.
I think people listen to whatever they think is good.
I'm not a militant, drug-taking freak! I'm sensitive.
I think people get fixated on the example of an idea.
You got to risk something to be able to give something, you know?
Not everyone deserves to be a musician, you get lucky enough to be one.
I think if you play music and you join a scene you're already too late.
I think everyone is trying to figure out who they are and their own thing.
Independent minded girls that are naked sounds like a great start to something.
Guitar solos, to me, should be a really articulate way to make fun of guitar solos.
After all, nothing helps to write lyrics more than to mess around with the language.
I hate that sense of entitlement or the sense of business crawling into playing music.
Any band on their first couple records is just trying to keep up with their inspiration.
Foolishly play with the fires of rumor, only to risk being burned by its treacherous flames.
I like to move forward and notice things along the roadside that indicate where I should go.
I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones.
I think part of what happens is that small labels want to get bigger. And bigger is not better.
All I really care about is that I'm being honest and I'm real and I'm coming from a real place.
Banks are kinda cool, you put some money in there. It should be kinda vaguely sexy, but it's not.
It's fun to toy around with press stuff a little bit, because in many ways it's not a real world.
I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick...maker.
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'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.
If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different.
Sometimes you actually get caught in the web of things where people are talking about... what kind of breakfast cereal you like.
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.
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.
Sometimes Queens' music is dark, but somehow it's ok to deliver it with a smile on your face because thing's are still going to kick in.
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 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'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.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
Sometimes you've got to draw a line between having all the options and being a slave to the things, using them every time you play the guitar. I'm trying to keep a real inconsistency to the pedals so that it is something new every time.
I've always considered myself a workaholic... The way I work, I have to turn myself upside down and hang myself by my ankles and wring myself out like a wet sweater, and I have to do that with other people, too, because I think that's where something good comes out.
The Queens Of The Stone Age have teamed up with multimedia wizard brain Liam Lynch to make the video for 'Burn The Witch' , a home-made affair that's just in time for Halloween. For the band, playing both the roles of cast and crew paid ginormous dividends, in the form of a video that cuts the heads off all contemporaries .