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Sure, I love fairy tales.
Finding beauty in the dissonance.
I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead.
Do unto others what has been done to you.
I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.
We are eternal. All this pain is an illusion.
I've always had an affinity for growing things.
You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.
Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.
Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos.
Liar, lawyer, mirror show me. What’s the difference?
And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.
I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.
Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.
Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.
Because as an only child, you have your own little world.
Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.
There is still a future with music, because people want music
I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.
The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?
Life is too short not to create something with every breath we draw.
I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.
Prescott National Forest is right on the edge of my home in Arizona.
We're just four guys and we are enjoying what we're doing with Tool.
Why did Father give these humans free will? Now they're all confused.
Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.
A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.
Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don't know what to expect
The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich.
I'm a lot easier to work with now than I have been in the past, for sure.
Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don't know what to expect.
I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something
After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.
Desert, in generally, is a very good place to find yourself. Or lose yourself.
Recognize this as a holy gift and celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing.
Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers
But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.
People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to Wal-Mart, so be it.
Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.
Blending is just like writing lyrics or finishing up the song, rearranging and arranging.
Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.
It's in my blood. My great-grandfather made wine and it's a tradition I want to pass on to my son.
Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.
Jesus Christ, why dont you come save my life. Open my eyes and blind me with your light and your lies.
I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.
I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.
Seems like Ive been here before. Seems so familiar. Seems like Im slipping into a dream within a dream.
For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.
I feel like with music there's so much ego rooted in expressing your thoughts and your experiences with it.
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.