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I Think The Grammys Are Nothing More Than Some Gigantic Promotional Machine For The Music Industry. They Cater To A Low Intellect And They Feed The Masses. They Don't Honor The Arts Or The Artist For What He Created. It's The Music Business Celebrating Itself.

The Process That We Go Through In Recording With Tool Is Very Organic, But At The Same Time It Is Very Thought Out. There Is A Very Left-brain Process Of Dissecting What We're Doing And Drawing From Source Material; It's Very Research Oriented And Esoteric.

It's A Purging Of Sorts. Like, When You're All Done Doing Your Laundry And It's Fresh And Bright, But Washing The Clothes, You Wouldn't Want To Get In While It's Spinning Around.

Everything Revolves Around The Music When It Comes To Tool.

I Think There's A Reason Why Wine Figures Into So Many Religions. There's Something Transcendent About It. It's Sort Of The Way That Music Is More Than The Sum Of Its Parts. You Have All These Elements That Make Up The Terroir That Wine Can Communicate.