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

But you know, I'm the negative-Nancy, curmudgeon, glass-half-empty-with-a-leak-in-it guy - which is basically the fuel that fires me up anyway. Without that, we wouldn't have me.

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.

All I can do is say I smell a rat. I don't know where it is or what kind of rat it is, but as an artist, I can express how. But I couldn't responsibly stand up and tell people which way to go, because then I'm just as guilty as the people who are telling everybody else what to do and where to go.

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

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.