The Idea Is, If I Can't Heal

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.

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.

Standing Above The Crowd, He Had A Voice So Strong And Loud And I Swallowed His Façade 'cause I'm So Eager To Identify With Someone Above The Ground, Someone Who Seemed To Feel The Same, Someone Prepared To Lead The Way, With Someone Who Would Die For 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.

I See A Lot Of Patterns In Our Behavior As A Nation That Parallel A Lot Of Other Historical Processes.