 Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool. |
| A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories. |
| I'm a lot easier to work with now than I have been in the past, for sure. |
| Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even. |
| If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common. |
| Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them. |
| If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets. |
| There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist. |
| I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes. |
| I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour. |
| Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads. |
| I always knew that I wanted to be an artist. |
| I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead. |
| But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people. |
| Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music. |
| And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about. |
