Homme "died" for a short time in 2010. After years of heavy touring and drug abuse severely weakened his immune system, he contracted an MRSA infection during surgery. In an attempt to restart his immune system, surgeons used a breathing tube which became stuck in his throat, choking him and leading to cardiac arrest. They eventually used a defibrillator to revive him. The experience left him physically and mentally weakened with a severely compromised immune system, and doctors confined him to bed without human contact for three months. He became depressed and considered quitting music, eventually finding himself unable to produce any new music at all for almost two years. He has said that this experience greatly contributed to the making of the 2013 album "...Like Clockwork". He credits Transcendental Meditation with helping him recover. When "...Like Clockwork" was released, Homme's refusal to go into depth about his story resulted in the misconception that the events happened during a routine knee surgery, a separate surgery in no way correlated to his incident. In June 2016, he clarified that the knee surgery story was created by somebody else and that the reality actually involved him going "in too deep", without clarifying what he meant by that. Because the podcast host Dean Delray asked him right after that remark if it was "with some drugs", some people have surmised that may have been the case, but Josh never confirmed that during the conversation.