“The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?”

“Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.”

“If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.”

“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.”

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

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