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People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to WalMart, so be it.

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

Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.

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.

Recognize this as a holy gift and celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing.

102. Scramble to reach higher ground. Order and sanity, something to comfort me.

94. Fuck smiley glad hands with hidden agendas.

You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.

Finding beauty in the dissonance

Liar, lawyer, mirror show me. What's the difference?

At some point, if you're lucky, you realize you're not the story. You're part of the story. The story is much bigger than you.

Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.

Jesus Christ, why dont you come save my life.
Open my eyes and blind me with your light
and your lies.

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

112. I listened for the whisper, of your sweet insanity.

Why did Father give these humans free will? Now they're all confused.

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.

101. I may find peace with in the emptiness, how pitiful.

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

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

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.

Life feeds on life ... feeds on life feeds on life ... this is neccesary ... this is necessary life feeds on life ... feeds on life

Every now and then, you get people who tend to forget what this country is about, which is a melting pot of races and cultures and freedom of speech.

I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead.

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

You really should be able to feel the higher power of music and be moved by it, rather than listening to me waffle on and having to explain it.

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

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

I've always had an affinity for growing things.

Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability
To lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here

Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos.

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

Desert, in generally, is a very good place to find yourself. Or lose yourself.

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.

We're just four guys and we are enjoying what we're doing with Tool.

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

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

I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.

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.

Seems like Ive been here before.
Seems so familiar.
Seems like Im slipping
into a dream within a dream.

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

But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.

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'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.

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

The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug.

89. If God is our father you thought, than Satan must be our cousin.

Sure, I love fairy tales.

Prescott National Forest is right on the edge of my home in Arizona.

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

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

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

Cold silence has a tendency to
atrophy any
sense of compassion
between supposed lovers

108. You minimize my moves in anyway, I must persuade you another way.

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

Life is too short not to create something with every breath we draw.

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

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

It's in my blood. My great-grandfather made wine and it's a tradition I want to pass on to my son.

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

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

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.

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.

People get upset and it becomes an excuse to treat other people a certain way,but if you really step back, you realize what you've left behind.

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

Do unto others what has been done to you,

Knuckle deep inside the borderline.
This may hurt a little but it's something you'll get used to.
Relax. Slip away.

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

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

Threw you the obvious and you flew with it on your back,
A name in your recollection, down among a million same. - A Perfect Circle.

I feel like with music there's so much ego rooted in expressing your thoughts and your experiences with it.

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.