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

Before I settled on music I wanted to be an archaeologist an astronaut all sorts of really diverse things.

I've done some acting and a lot of different things but mostly it's the music.

Entertainment came out of this thing called a television and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems seeing a painting listening to some music some opera which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.

We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.

Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.

If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings.

Getting into music has changed my personality and way of doing things. I'm far more open now.

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

I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime it's just that things are better now than they were like five ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.

I think that a song when it works never mind a piece of long form music even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own ideally.

Music is really something that makes people whole.

I think people need to have fun with whatever they're doing - makeup their clothes music live shows - anything you don't need to take too seriously don't take too seriously.

Beethoven can write music thank God but he can do nothing else on earth.

Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.

There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it and where it was recorded what year it was done what they were listening to and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior.

I think I'm a music fan before anything else.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing for the most part.

I started getting these attacks in 2009 just as my music career was taking off. I'd be doing photo-shoots and started to feel like I was having heart attacks. Increasingly I found it difficult to step outside my flat. Things started to get better after I saw a therapist who told me I needed to make peace with my panic attacks.

I maintain that when I finally retire from my career in music I will go and live back in Wales - when I am an old person if I live to be an old person. The water I miss and the air there's something different about it. And I miss the simple life.

I'd like a male to listen to my music and find it kind of fascinating what a girl goes through when they get heartbroken or get sad or get hurt by something.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured such as poetry music painting public speaking.

Oh I will always be honest with my music. The records are black boxes for me. Like if you want to know who I am my views my perspective things I love things I hate my convictions my anthems. I've never let people's opinions affect the way I write.