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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.

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Artist, Always, Like, Picked

But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.

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Government, Educated, Been, Educated People

I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.

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Think, Big, I Think, None

You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.

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Listening, Know, Up, None

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

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See, Other, Lot, Parallel

Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.

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Music, Everything, Around, Revolves

I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour.

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Think, Some, Larger, Shady

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.

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Fuel, Guy, Which, Fires

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.

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Words, Greek, Stories, Latin

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

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Art, How, Idea, Heal

Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.

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Artists, Most, Extremely, Closest

If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.

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Vary, Always, May, Story Lines

A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.

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Eternity, Other, Over, Spiral

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.

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Work, Videos, Adam, Lyrics

I think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue that goes on that I just assume you can hear.

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Think, Biggest Problem, Assume

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.

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Education, Own, Outlets, Powers

One of the challenges we set up for 'Puscifer' was to come up with a core identity and see how far we can push it.

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Challenges, How Far, Set, Push

Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.

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Music, Release, Inspired, Tool

We're just four guys and we are enjoying what we're doing with Tool.

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Doing, Guys, Four, Tool

A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.

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Reason, Some, Lot, Tool

I've always had an affinity for growing things.

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Growing, Always, Things, Affinity

Because as an only child, you have your own little world.

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World, Own, Only, Only Child

Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.

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Some, Religious, Most, Archetypes

Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.

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Never, Up, Actually, Stand Up

Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos.

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Delicate, Egos

I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.

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Responsibility, Sense, Pessimist

People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to Wal-Mart, so be it.

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Follow, Wal-Mart, Them, Hearts

I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.

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Clowns, Like, Rather, Emulate

But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.

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Nature, Going, Italian, Situation

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.

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Needs, I Believe That, Outlet

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