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Looking for equality everywhere is a huge mistake because equals are terrible and boring. But a sense of fairness and justice is a totally different thing and a much more complex thing.

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Mistake, More, Fairness, Different Thing

I like to move forward and notice things along the roadside that indicate where I should go.

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Like, Move, Roadside, Move Forward

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.

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Always, Other, Making, Joke

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. Because the moves you make are then based on what you don't want to do.

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Fact, I Think, Separate, Defining

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.'

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Thought, Deal, Remade, Johnny

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.

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Other, Hang, I Think, Something Good

I've worked at a deli, I've worked construction, I've worked a few different jobs.

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Construction, Jobs, Worked, Deli

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.

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Death, Career, Other, Stone

Really the topic of breakfast cereal is generally a very boring one.

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Boring, Very, Cereal

Sometimes you actually get caught in the web of things where people are talking about... what kind of breakfast cereal you like.

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Kind, Caught, Like, Cereal

I think people get fixated on the example of an idea.

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Think, Idea, I Think, Fixated

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.

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Chance, Think, I Think, Coolest

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.

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Sometimes, Going, Still, OK

By the time you get to your sixth record, some of the benefits of being in a band are grander than ever, but some of the obstacles are just massive. You deal with these lateral subjects, and all that is left is the elephant in the room.

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Some, Benefits, By The Time, Grander

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. You know what I mean?

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Wife, Parent, Will, Divorced

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.

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Year, Like, Going, Everything Else

I think if you play music and you join a scene you're already too late.

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Play, Think, Too Late, Play Music

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

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Me, Should, Guitar Solos, Articulate

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.

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Think, Be Careful, I Think, Vacation

Vinyl has gotten to the point where it's exclusively for the collector, I guess.

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Where, Gotten, Guess, Vinyl

When it's time to make music, that's about getting lost for me. To be a control freak is not half as good as being a freak who's casually in control. You're feeling around in the dark for something that feels good.

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Feels, About, Half, Control Freak

The expression of this idea is Queens of the Stone Age, but the idea is that you will never slack on the music and will always humble yourself at the alter of Rock.

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Humble, Always, Expression, Stone

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.

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Away, Like, Fairly, Upbeat

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.

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Language, I Think, Use, Vote

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.

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Love, Other, Everybody, Surgery

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.

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Part, About, Real Place, Being Honest

Records don't have to be perfect. Everyone doesn't have to move left when everyone else moves left. I love hearing the mistakes.

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Love, Move, Everyone Else, Hearing

The problem is that music is selfish in that you need to make it for yourself, so that you can give it away, and those two things don't jive. I needed to find the right reason to play that had the magic and mystery and excitement that made me want to play in the first place.

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Magic, Play, Reason, Excitement

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.

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Sometimes, Made, Willing, Decisions

I think the best thing I could ever teach my daughter is that she's not an object or a trophy, and that she can trust in herself and believe in herself and that you are not your things, and you are not your job.

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Trust, Think, I Think, Object

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