What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that sound selfish?
The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.
My place in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, so you've just got a keyboard, guitar, a little drum machine and you know if you can work stuff out like that, if you can hammer out songs that sound good just with those three things and a voice, you're on your way.
I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.
This sounds like my autobiography, but I thought this would be a good time to sound off about myself, as I think that I have been silent too long about my views and opinions.
The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.
People say that the Beavis voice doesn't sound like me or some other voices. Butt-Head I think sounds like me.
I am a fan of today's sound as long as we don't get too slick, and yet I am very reverent of my roots.
Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you get a little band together, and then you get a few jobs. You take four guys that sound half bad, but if they're 25 percent each, they can give 100 percent, you know?
I don't try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it.
Japan is quite weird because they wait for you to say something before they respond. You can literally hear a pin drop, they don't make a sound until you say something to the crowd.
I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.
That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound.