Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.

Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.

A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.

This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality. Embrace this moment, remember: we are eternal all this pain is an illusion.

Life is too short not to create something with every breath we draw.

People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to Wal-Mart, so be it.

Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability To lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here

Desert, in generally, is a very good place to find yourself. Or lose yourself.

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.

The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug.

Union with God is the only heaven there is, and it begins here on earth.

The biggest ego trip is getting rid of your ego, and of course the joke of it all is that your ego does not exist.

I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.

I'm creating music - it doesn't matter if anyone else likes it.

The only thing people are interested in is people.

Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.

Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.

And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well.

When you feel how depressingly slowly you climb, it's well to remember that Things Take Time.

That's what I don't like about magic, it does everything by magic!