Good music is good music and everything else can go to hell.

I can play punk rock and I love playing punk rock but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.

I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.

Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive even the smallest task in music is so absorbing and carries us so far away from town country earth and all worldly things that it is truly a blessed gift of God.

I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger.

In our music in our everyday life there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?

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.

As a rule my focus is on classical music but I love jazz. I love everything actually.

Every so often I feel I should graduate to classical music properly. But the truth is I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.

I'm quite private. And I never wanted to be the biggest star in the world really. So in that sense I've got a good balance of doing great shows of making an appearance every now and then and writing music and I don't really have to do much else.

I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf Cream and Led Zeppelin but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues.

I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet but something's going wrong.

Music is for every single person that walks the planet.

My aim is just to make good music every single time.

I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me.