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

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 did The Sorting Hat, and it was the Gryffindor, and I was like, 'I'm not doing it again. It could be something bad.'

Scotland is not a region of the U.K.; Scotland is a nation, and if we cannot protect our interests within a U.K. that is going to be changing fundamentally, then that right of Scotland to consider the options of independence has to be there.

I do not deal in any confidential information. What I do is provide advice.

It cricket requires one to assume such indecent postures.

In this business, you're either Brad Pitt right away, or you're already going down the ladder.

Passion is best spent on God; so get committed.

Money has power. And so withholding money has power too, especially when a bunch of people do it together.

I'm always in search for perfection. If it's not perfect, I'm back to the drawing board.

I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a way to know others, to get away from myself.

I've walked out of films. But for every film I've ever walked out of, I've probably walked out of 500 plays.

You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.