Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.
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.
Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.
I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour.
You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.
Actually I never did stand up. I’m not that funny.
We’re just four guys and we are enjoying what we’re doing with Tool.
I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.
Sure, I love fairy tales.
It’s in my blood. My great-grandfather made wine and it’s a tradition I want to pass on to my son.
I’ve always had an affinity for growing things.
I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.
Novell has the necessary resources to be a much more profitable enterprise but it currently lacks the vision, strategy and execution to produce respectable returns.
For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn’t matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.
Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.
I feel like there’s no real innovation in having some music. It’s more just unique personalities and unique expressions, and you being able to tell your story.