"I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes."

"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."

"I think people in general have neglected to learn about history."

"But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people."

"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."

"The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?"

"I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do."

"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."

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

"Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music."

"I have the distinction of being called a media whore by Courtney Love."

"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."

"I always knew that I wanted to be an artist."

"And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about."

"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."

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

"Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them."

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

"Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads."

"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."

"I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big."

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

"For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live."

"Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool."

"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 would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us."

"Because as an only child, you have your own little world."

"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."

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

"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."