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

Blending is just like writing lyrics or finishing up the song, rearranging and arranging.

I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.

I think there's a reason why wine figures into so many religions. There's something transcendent about it. It's sort of the way that music is more than the sum of its parts. You have all these elements that make up the terroir that wine can communicate.

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

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.

Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.