The fans have been great to me. I don’t think it’s asking too much to have me sign something for them.

In my case, my progesterone levels didn’t even register. I was at zero. And by the time I actually got help five months later they were still at zero.

If I’m alone too long I think too much, and I’m not interested in doing that. That won’t lead anywhere good, I’m sure. If I’m busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle...

Modern instruments were designed to throw sound all in one direction.

I’m totally down with insurrection in the street. I’ve had a great time with that over the years. Insurrection in the voting booth is the other part of the equation.

It’s better to burn out than fade away.

I want to make something commercial that people can pick up on.

Music should be your escape.

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.

And I now think that Stratocasters and Telecasters are way cool.

The Telecaster doesn’t really sound that good for the kind of rock and roll that a lot of people played.

At some point in their career, most people do an album of great hits of other performers – a tribute album that shows their influences.

Well, before we met I had heard and seen him sing so I knew he was good.

I found out through the Internet that I have AIDS. I learned that I was dead. Where else would I find these things?

Aww, come on man, I can barely handle 6 strings.

I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.

I like to come up with the melodies, and I have a lot of ideas as far as structure goes.

A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.

In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it’s on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with...

From ’69 til ’76, I never played in public. I would play by myself at home.

It’s the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they’re gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as...

Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians – except for the occasional mountain lion steak.

It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

I try to help motivate the other guys in the band. I talk to the other guys in the group about frequency of meals and how you should eat.

Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don’t look at it as an art form. They think it’s just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life.

God is a hero.

Once you’re signed to a label you compromise.

I started my career at the top and have been working my way downwards ever since.

Occasionally, when I run into a great bass backstage at a festival I’ll play a few notes on the low E string, just to feel the instrument vibrate against my belly.

I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.

You’re never going to learn everything.

A lot of what I have always done is do other singers.

I’ve never written a political song. Songs can’t save the world. I’ve gone through all that.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in...

How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions.

Well not really to get attention, but to entertain, but you know to show some elements of rural life as well, it kind of blended all in, its kind of like a mockery in a...

But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you’re actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together.

I’ve toured the U.S. every single year and I’ve put a record out every single year whether it was on a major label or not; that doesn’t make any difference to me.

Life is a gamble. And I took a chance, man. And here I am, talkin’ to you today, thirty years later, wondering what the hell I did in the first place!

I have one son who’s a drummer and then one son writes scripts and another daughter is a model, so they’re all doing their thing.

I had never done TV. I think it’s a foolish medium for, most rock ‘n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV.

The United States is a beautiful place, you know?

The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon’s plays.

I’m one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. I’m just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play.

I advise all the young kids to not overwork. You can’t be out there blowing hard. You have to pace yourself.

Love’s an excuse to get hurt.