You Know, I Grew Up Listening To

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.

I'm A Pessimist. But I'm A Pessimist With A Sense Of Responsibility.

Whenever You Try To Work Through The Things That We're Trying To Work Through, That We're Addressing, It Ends Up Looking Negative. Our Goal Is Nonjudgment, Nonfiltered Acceptance Of Everything. So Much Of Our Background Collectively, Especially In The United States, Is Denying And Suppressing And Disowning A Lot Of Negativity And The Darker Areas. You Can Become Swallowed Up In It. It's Cancerous. The Goal Should Be To Define Acceptance For Everything. To Try And Consider Every Aspect. To Try To Look Into The Shadows, As Well As The Light.

There's Always Somebody In Your Life You Know That Just, Somehow, You Know, They're Just That Borderline Sociopath That Just Wants What They Want And Doesn't Care About Relationships. Everybody Has Several Of Those People In Their Life.

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.