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

The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich.

Yeah, because I think it's more important just to inspire people to wake up one day and pick up a book and start feeling it out for themselves.

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.

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

Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.

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

I've always had an affinity for growing things.

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

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

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.

A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.

Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos.

Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.

I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.

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

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

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

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.