"But it doesn't matter now. Just come and love me how, like the way you used to do"

Josh Homme: "The most important aspect of making this record was redefining our sound, asking and answering the question, 'What do we sound like now?'. If you can't make a great first record, you should just stop - but if you can make a great record but you keep making records and your sound doesn't evolve, you become a parody of that original sound."