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“For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.”
“Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.”
“The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?”
“Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.”
“I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.”
“Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.”
“I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.”
“Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.”
“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.”
“People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to Wal-Mart, so be it.”
“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.”
“But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.”
“If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.”
“But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.”
“I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.”
“Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos.”
“We're just four guys and we are enjoying what we're doing with Tool.”
“I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead.”
“You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.”
“Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.”