Musician Quotes

As far as groupies, I never saw any of them.

Around the property I have here, I'm about to put an all weather race track. I'm about to build stables. I'm about to ship over a couple of my thoroughbreds from England.

And actually, about three weeks ago, Micky, Peter and I were in Vegas at the MGM Grand. And we did about 12 shows in seven days. It was quite an experience.

America changed my life, but I still think of home and working in Scotland was an important part of that.

I'm a married man. If I want sex at this particular point in my life, I go home for it.

The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out.

What I'm making music for now is more similar to what I was doing in the beginning. In those days it was all about doing music so when people heard it in a club it would take their minds of their worries. I got more artistic but now I've gone back to basics.

I try to give positive energy in all my shows.

I don't know why but it feels like home to me. The Scottish people are really friendly - you like to have fun and you don't care about anything, which is the same as I am.

I am a God.

It's like James Brown used to say... I don't know, but whatever I play it's got to be funky.

I don't judge anybody because I've been the one to party and look for the after party to begin! I have more fun now both when I DJ and in general.

To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart.

Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.

If you become addicted and a junkie, well, that's your fault.

If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.

I've never worried about how long the song is.

I'm not a geek about equipment, I just know what I like.

I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.

I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.

I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.

I personally don't like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes wrong.

I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.

I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.

I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.

But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.

As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.

All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.

My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.