I believe that when you go into a gallery or a museum, the most powerful pieces are the ones that don't have the words in the corner that distract you from the larger piece.

Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.

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

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.

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.

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

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.