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The only reason I became the singer in the band is because I sang the best. It wasn't out of some desire to be a star or be a famous singer. It's not like I love interviews.

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

When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it.

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

When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.

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

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

With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.

Cheap Trick has played with every band on the planet.

A band can define their own success.

I generally prefer to come in to the studio with a fully written song and then work on the arrangement with the band. Sometimes even the arrangements are pretty much already worked out in my head, but other times we experiment.

Saxon, if you are unfamiliar, is a British heavy-metal band that has been around since the mid-'70s and was in no small part the inspiration for Spinal Tap.

Every year, there's some band that plays guitar-oriented pop music that has a single, but for the most part, it's kind of relegated to the sidelines.

Most of your day is spent working, and being in a band is no different. We're just business travelers in a way.

Making your own records is really satisfying in the sense that you more or less get to do what you want. It may not sell or whatever, but on an artistic level, the only people that you really have to fight with are the people in your own band.

I like that kind of classic-type sound. A lot of my favorite albums were tracked live, with a four-piece band. I love the way those albums sound, but I want to make records that sound like that in the way I like to make stuff.

I ended up renting a studio in L.A. for about 15 months. Starting in January of 2016, some of the guys in the band were coming out once every five to six weeks for like five days a time.

The Heartbreakers were what you imagine being in a band would be like - best buddies and great players and guys who took it all really seriously.

When you make a record, you get to live in an imaginary world where you have the best kind of band on every song.

I love playing guitar every night, and to be at this point where it's like, the songs are done and I'm happy with the way they are on record, and I get to hear them be reinterpreted by the live band? That's kind of the icing on the cake. It's the best.

Touring is a rough thing. You don't have any time to look around or stop and think if what you're doing is making you happy. The more you tour, the better the band gets, and you get caught up in a lot more things than just traveling.