Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.Collection: Government
A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.Collection: Humor
If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.Collection: Education
A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.
Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.
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 believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.
I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour.
I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.
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.
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.
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.
If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.
There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist.
Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.
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.
I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.
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.
For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.
Yeah, because I think it's more important just to inspire people to wake up one day and pick up a book and start feeling it out for themselves.
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.