I Always Knew That I Wanted To

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's Conflict In Everything, Just Trying To Buy A Used Car You Deal With People That You Don't Want To Deal With, You Know, That's Just The Way Of Life, Nothing Stops Changing, You're Always Going To Have The Conflict Till Your Last Breath, I Mean On Your Deathbed, Arguing With The Doctor Who's Going To Pay The Bill, You Know, It's Just The Reality Of It, So None Of That Ever Goes Away.

To Put Things Back Into Perspective, Back When We As People Were Struggling To Survive Through Winters, Or Even Through The Night, I Feel Like There's A Lot Of Whining About Whether Or Not You Use Asian Or The Words Asian Or Oriental, And How It's Going To Offend Somebody, I Mean Give Me - I Mean, Just Shut Up.

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 Know, I Grew Up Listening To Joni Mitchell.