Justin Chancellor

“My mother was sort of mildly religious, but the rest of us, you know, we didn't really have it forced on us.”

“Everyone knows we take our time. We're really trying to be responsible with ourselves in trying to discover ideas that haven't been discovered before. It's kind of an alchemy, how we experiment.”

“I think that's an idea that's always appealed to us - to let something go where it wants to.”

“If you start to believe the hype about yourself, then you start to lose the bigger picture, and your focus is in the wrong place.”

“It's not like people are going to be reading about us every day in the magazines.”

“You have to be completely brave and sincere about what you're doing to just not ever compromise and change it to what you think someone else might want.”

“Writing is a grueling process for us, and once we finish an album, we go on tour for a couple of years. Plus, we're always very involved in our own business, so we need a break when we come back.”

“We are all musicians, and we're not really good musicians. But we have this gracious gift that has been bestowed on us, and we don't want to disappoint. So I guess our biggest fear would be, just giving up.”

“I was living in London with my brother, and he was a friend of Matt Marshall, who signed Tool. So we were the first people over in Europe to get the first Tool demo in 1991, and me and my brother immediately cottoned on to it.”

“When you're getting older, you think about what you have to offer, and what's the point of your life.”

“Playing '10,000 Days' in concert was very challenging but infinitely rewarding. It's much more sensitive and emotional than our other songs, and it requires pacing yourself and also being very vulnerable.”

“The last thing I do is go and listen to heavy rock music. But I love electronic music. The purity of the tones is inspiring, because it's obviously much more controlled than a guitar tone.”

“I used to aspire to being more of a traditional bass player, to be honest. People say I play it like a guitar - and I was a guitar player when I was growing up. I started learning when I was eight, and that's what I was fascinated with in my teen years.”

“Find your voice and don't be afraid to explore it.”

“I'm ashamed to say it, but I watch YouTube videos of our live shows, wondering if it actually sounded the way it sounded when I was playing it, and the consistent thing I see is that you can feel the anxiety and the tension and it's over-aggressive a lot of the time.”