Josh Homme, Queens of the Stone Age founder: The fragility of a tough guy

He’s a tough guy, but also, a small universe of varying sensibilities who carries around a notebook in which he writes more poems than songs. “I write poems, but I don’t consider myself a poet,” he says, taking a sip from his beer. It’s the afternoon of June 26, the day his band, Queens of the Stone Age, ended its packed Spanish tour — five cities in just a week: A Coruña, Madrid, Vitoria, Fuengirola and Barcelona — and Josh Homme (Palm Springs, 51 years old) is euphorically calm. No one could have imagined that 15 days later, on July 10, Homme would undergo emergency surgery, nor that today, he would remain under medical supervision, his status unknown beyond the fact that, for the moment, getting back on stage is not an option. The rest of the concerts on the European tour have been dropping one by one to cancellation.

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