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

I like when people take chances.

Guitar solos, to me, should be a really articulate way to make fun of guitar solos.

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.

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 .