Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.

I’ve always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I’ll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that...

I’m now comfortable playing a lot of the old songs, and I’ve gotten out a lot of the old equipment.

The show is different every night, because I never write a setlist.

If I stopped touring tomorrow, it wouldn’t change my life.

The desire to be rewarded for one’s creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.

There were a lot of drugs. We kinda just passed the time that way. For a couple of years we were all doin’ anything we could get our hands on.

You don’t have to get beat up as many times as I did to come to your senses. Certainly I wish I’d come to mine earlier than I did.

Well, you know, certain – for one reason, I think that the intervention process is a good process for most people, but for me, it just looked like a bunch of my friends trying to...

The things that come to those who wait, may be the things left by those who were there first.

Then my own TV chat show in England in 1989.

Meeting Chet was a life changing moment for me.

My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.

If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.

But Freedom Strike was actually quite cool.

Because of time, we’ve learned that there are some things that you really have to maintain, like a normal home life; and that’s a plus.

I’m doing it by enjoying what I do in the gym, really enjoying my foods.

Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to...

It’s part of the calling to at least do a few songs in the show that give people some hope. There’s so much hurt in this world and… music is such a great healing balm...

I’ve always gotten along with guys better.

The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.

I wrote the Brotherhood song for no money out of my deep feelings about humanity, and because I was flattered that whatever talents I had, had been recognized.

The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.

With me being form the South, I wanted to make this album like a G Unit.

There’s only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything, Tony Iommi.

I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.

From the time I moved to San Francisco in 1967 to play with the Steve Miller Band, there was a lot of support in the music community for one cause or another, but this one...

Chaos is a friend of mine.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

White people don’t sing together very often, and when they do, it’s about the celebrity of the song. The singing at my shows is all about harmony.

If you really think you’re right, you should tell it.

You know, I think when people fly the nest a little too soon, as far as getting involved in movies, anything beyond the music can make it suffer, I just want to make sure that...

I can’t sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.

And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.

I ain’t good-lookin’, but I’m somebody’s angel child.

I never had those hang-ups. I mean, I think the people that were concerned, maybe your agents and things had those things, but I never knew.

I love to laugh, it’s my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.

It brings people together. It brings the races together. It brings religions together.

Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression.

A scratch is nothing but the back-cueing that you hear in your ear before you push it out to the crowd.

It is not together, but the ensemble is perfect.

I quite drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn’t help the healing process.

At The Gong Show… I was nervous, I was afraid, but I went out there and auditioned and they liked me. They asked me to come back and tape the show.

A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It’s my favorite part of the business, live concerts.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

Performing is very much like cooking: putting it all together, raising the temperature.

I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.

As an artist, you dream about accumulating enough successful music to someday do just one greatest-hits album, but to reach the point where you’re releasing your second collection of hits is beyond belief.

Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.

I’ll look back and I’d be better to answer that in about three months from now. Or when the movie comes out and I see it. I don’t even know what it is yet. I’ve...