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“The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich.”
“Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don't know what to expect.”
“I've always had an affinity for growing things.”
“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.”
“A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.”
“A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.”
“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.”
“Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.”
“Prescott National Forest is right on the edge of my home in Arizona.”
“I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.”
“Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.”