Adam Jones quotes:

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.

We wanted to take as much time and effort making the video as we did the song.

I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.

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

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

I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand.

I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.

There's always the influence of music, film, art and the other things that drive me. I'm usually inspired by my environment and whatever is making me happy or mad.

Different people get different things out of the images. It doesn't matter what it's about, all that matters is how it makes you feel.

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

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

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

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

In the time between records, I always have lots of stuff going on. I shoot photography, make little sculptures, play video games.

I like soundtracks and I like film.

Fine art is really something I want to get into.

I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.

I'm not a good guitar player.

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

Everyone in Tool is interested in how we present our music. We write a group of songs that have a vibe, energy and feeling, and then we try to pick an image to capture that and communicate a feeling. We want something that adds to the connection with the audience.

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

We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that is LA based, all in the same building, and really understands what the artists want.

We have meetings with our record label to tell them how to market us.

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

I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.

I've always been involved in the visual arts and music.

That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound.

As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.