- Brant Bjork: Beautiful mountains, lots of palm trees... but there's also elements of the desert that's not so physical, that is like... eternal.
- Mario Lalli: You can go out into the desert and blow shit up, you can f*cking shoot guns, ride motorcycles...
- Mario Lalli: And you can play music!
- Joshua Homme: It needed to be almost excessively whatever style it was... in order to function outside.
- Joshua Homme: If you gonna be heavy you had to be real heavy.