One of the challenges we set up for 'Puscifer' was to come up with a core identity and see how far we can push it.
I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.
Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don't know what to expect.
But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.
A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.
But you know, I'm the negative-Nancy, curmudgeon, glass-half-empty-with-a-leak-in-it guy - which is basically the fuel that fires me up anyway. Without that, we wouldn't have me.
There is still a future with music, because people want music.
We're just four guys and we are enjoying what we're doing with Tool.
After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.
The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?
I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.
Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.
Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.
I think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue that goes on that I just assume you can hear.
A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories.
I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour.
I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.
I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.
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.
