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.

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.

We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.

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.

I didn't want to play a lawyer. I didn't want to play a doctor. I didn't want to play a single dad. I wanted to do something I felt I could learn from, something that would be a challenge and something that would not dry up.

Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.