That’s the thing I like about my sound. It’s real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound.

I personally don’t like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes wrong.

As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.

I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.

That’s what I love about our music – it’ll never be a hit because you can’t dance to it.

I’m not a geek about equipment, I just know what I like.

I’m a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we’ve been in many bands.

Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.

The Melvins are grunge.

I listen to Helmet – and I love Helmet, they’re a great band – but every song sounds the same.

We have meetings with our record label to tell them how to market us.

I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.

I’m not into solos, I’m into lyrics.

Doing the stereotypical solo bores me.

I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.

We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that is LA based, all in the same building, and really understands what the artists want.

If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it’s gonna sound like a lyric.

We’re more into expressing ourselves than making radio hits.

I’ve never worried about how long the song is.

That’s the thing I like about my sound. It’s real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound.

All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.

I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.

If you become addicted and a junkie, well, that’s your fault.

Different people get different things out of the images. It doesn’t matter what it’s about, all that matters is how it makes you feel.

When we played with the Rollins Band, we’d keep songs going until we felt like ending it.

I have a record company starting. It’s called Flesh Records and I’m putting together music for porno movies.

I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don’t understand.

But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.

We wanted to take as much time and effort making the video as we did the song.

I haven’t listened to much music lately; I’ve been out of it.

My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.

I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.

I’m my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.

I’ve always dabbled on guitar, but never took lessons.

I’m not a good guitar player.

With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.