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

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.

I'd like to have a beer-holder on my guitar like they have on boats.

Only those who can accept their own annihilation can have the courage to be true individuals.

If I don't believe it, then they don't need me on the court. I've just got to believe that in my heart.

If you're an investor who wants a little bit more from the capital-appreciation side of things, but still likes this concept of getting 'paid by the company,' then we would tell that investor to pursue shareholder yield.

There is dissatisfaction among a great many Christian people. They are not happy with what they have and, therefore, respond readily to the message of the restored gospel.

We have not wings we cannot soar but we have feet to scale and climb by slow degrees by more and more the cloudy summits of our time.

My point of reference is life, in everything that I do.

I'm 37 years old and don't have a steady paycheck.

The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.

I know a man who doesn't pay to have his trash taken out. How does he get rid of his trash? He gift wraps it, and puts in into an unlocked car.

Our swords shall play the orators for us.