Everything We Release With Tool Is Inspired

The Record Company's Worst Fear Is That You'll Fall In Love Or Get Rich.

Whenever You Try To Work Through The Things That We're Trying To Work Through, That We're Addressing, It Ends Up Looking Negative. Our Goal Is Nonjudgment, Nonfiltered Acceptance Of Everything. So Much Of Our Background Collectively, Especially In The United States, Is Denying And Suppressing And Disowning A Lot Of Negativity And The Darker Areas. You Can Become Swallowed Up In It. It's Cancerous. The Goal Should Be To Define Acceptance For Everything. To Try And Consider Every Aspect. To Try To Look Into The Shadows, As Well As The Light.

Choices Always Were A Problem For You. What You Need Is Someone Strong To Guide You. Deaf And Blind And Dumb And Born To Follow, What You Need Is Someone Strong To Use You - Like Me.

The Process That We Go Through In Recording With Tool Is Very Organic, But At The Same Time It Is Very Thought Out. There Is A Very Left-brain Process Of Dissecting What We're Doing And Drawing From Source Material; It's Very Research Oriented And Esoteric.

You Really Should Be Able To Feel The Higher Power Of Music And Be Moved By It, Rather Than Listening To Me Waffle On And Having To Explain It.