I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead.
Seems like Ive been here before. Seems so familiar. Seems like Im slipping into a dream within a dream.
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.
And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.
I've always had an affinity for growing things.
I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.
I feel like there's no real innovation in having some music. It's more just unique personalities and unique expressions, and you being able to tell your story.
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 think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue that goes on that I just assume you can hear.
Prescott National Forest is right on the edge of my home in Arizona.
I feel like with music there's so much ego rooted in expressing your thoughts and your experiences with it.
Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos.
A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.
Standing above the crowd, He had a voice so strong and loud And I swallowed his façade 'cause I'm so Eager to identify with Someone above the ground, Someone who seemed to feel the same, Someone prepared to lead the way, with Someone who would die for me.
Life feeds on life... feeds on life feeds on life... this is neccesary... this is necessary life feeds on life... feeds on life
Desert, in generally, is a very good place to find yourself. Or lose yourself.
If you want to get your soul to heaven, trust in me. Don't judge or question. You are broken now, but faith can heal you. Just do everything I tell you to do.
The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?
Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.
A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories.
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.
Do unto others what has been done to you.
Novell has the necessary resources to be a much more profitable enterprise but it currently lacks the vision, strategy and execution to produce respectable returns.
Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don't know what to expect
There are people who are like monkeys in a cage just hitting the coke button. They don't really get that for [musicians and artists] to do these things, they have to fund them. They have to have something to pay the rent.