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 think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.

Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.

But then it hasn’t really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.

I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour.

Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.

For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn’t matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.

I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.

The idea is, if I can’t heal from my art, then how can you heal?

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.

I’m a lot easier to work with now than I have been in the past, for sure.

After all, in today’s music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.

I think the biggest problem working with me would be that I’m an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue that goes on that I just assume you can hear.

Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.

And if you don’t live, you have nothing to write about.

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.

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...

Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don’t know what to expect.

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn’t really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn’t control them as easily.

Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.

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.

There is still a future with music, because people want music.

Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.

Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.

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.

We’re just four guys and we are enjoying what we’re doing with Tool.

I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.

Because as an only child, you have your own little world.

I can’t be a legend yet. I’m not dead.

I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end – and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.

We’re five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.

Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.