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

I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.

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

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

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

I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.

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

The Melvins are grunge.

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

I'm not a good guitar player.

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

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

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

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

I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Doing the stereotypical solo bores me.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

It is always easier to label than understand.

If 'The New York Times' says it, it must be true.

When you head on out to the Moon, in very short order, and you get a chance to look back at the Earth, that horizon slowly curves around in upon himself, and all of sudden you're looking at something that is very strange, but yet is very, very familiar, because you're beginning to see the Earth evolve.

What I really wanted to do, actually, was stay home and be a mom and have some more kids.

Romance is possible between two people at any age! I love feeling young and acting young as I age.

Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times.

I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a "learning experience." Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a "learning experience." It makes me feel less stupid.

My golf score is really bad. I don't know. I'm definitely not a good golfer. Off the tee box, I can drive it about 275, and I'm in the fairway about 99% of the time. It's my next shot that needs work.

We have shown, given these last three years, that we were succeeding in fighting terrorists. While during the first 30 years of the former governments they didn't.

I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.

I had always realized it was desirable to gear down the jet.

Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.