Maynard James Keenan

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.

I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.

After all, in today’s music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.

Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.

There is still a future with music, because people want music.

Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.

We’re five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.

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.