Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.
From Maynard James Keenan
For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.
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.
If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.
Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.
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.
Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.
We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.
A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories.
I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.
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