Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.
I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.
There is still a future with music, because people want music.
Liar, lawyer, mirror show me. What’s the difference?
Why did Father give these humans free will? Now they’re all confused.
It’s a purging of sorts. Like, when you’re all done doing your laundry and it’s fresh and bright, but washing the clothes, you wouldn’t want to get in while it’s spinning around.
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.
But I’m a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I’m going to make something out of it.
If you want to get your soul to heaven, trust in me. Don’t judge or question. You are broken now, but faith can heal you. Just do everything I tell you to do.
I can’t be a legend yet. I’m not dead.
But you know, I’m the negative-Nancy, curmudgeon, glass-half-empty-with-a-leak-in-it guy – which is basically the fuel that fires me up anyway. Without that, we wouldn’t have me.
The idea is, if I can’t heal from my art, then how can you heal?
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.
Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.
The army influences everything I do. Certainly it teaches you discipline, which is a necessary element of development. I think there’s more of a collaborative understanding in the band because of that.
Choices always were a problem for you. What you need is someone strong to guide you. Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow, what you need is someone strong to use you – like me.
One of the challenges we set up for ‘Puscifer’ was to come up with a core identity and see how far we can push it.
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.
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.
After all, in today’s music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.