We are eternal. All this pain is an illusion.

I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.

A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.

I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.

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.

I want to find a genie in a bottle that can grant me three wishes. I want to be able to speak, read, write, and understand any language ever written or spoken, just any language throughout the history of man. That would be one of my wishes from the genie, so I would have to put "multilingual" on the resume, should I ever find the genie.

I'm not an educated man. I only know what I'm told, and I'm not told that much; I have no frame of reference for how to place things in history be a responsible leader. All I can do is be an artist.