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

That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.

The Melvins are grunge.

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

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

We're more into expressing ourselves than making radio hits.

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

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.

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

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

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

I'm not a good guitar player.

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.

Doing the stereotypical solo bores me.

I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.

I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.

I've always dabbled on guitar, but never took lessons.

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

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