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.
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.
Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.
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.
I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.
Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.
It's annoying when you've got a guitar and you're working on music and then you have to go and do the shopping or someone calls your mobile and you get distracted or you have to go out and do something.
It's quite hard not to cringe at your own music; you're always a bit annoyed at some parts of it.
The main thing in making your own music is that it's an expression of someone's personality and being. That's what people want to hear, and you can't really teach that - that's just something that comes out. Teaching just hones that.
I'm not really into the rock n' roll lifestyle; I'm a music geek!
I think I skipped a lot of music, like when I was 17 or 18. I didn't know about a lot of new bands because I was so immersed in older music.
Because I'm pushing my body so hard already, the last thing I want to do is have music that's really too strong, in my head.
I actually prefer soothing music - and maybe that's the skater in me.
I am a futurist, projecting trends in science into the next decades and century, but ironically my two daughters - one is a neuroscientist and the other is a pastry chef - tell me that my taste in music is positively prehistoric.
I'm not necessarily that big of a clubbing junkie, but I really like dance music as a genre.
The music industry doesn't exist the way it used to. You'll never have another star like the stars of the '90s.
I was born out of classical music.
Everything I do is very visual and very aural, so I don't read music, and I draw as much as I write out lyrics.
I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.
I am totally unapologetic about pop music.
