ADAM JONES

With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.

I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.

I'm not a good guitar player.

I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.

I've always been involved in the visual arts and music.

When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.

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

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

As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.

I'm not a geek about equipment, I just know what I like.

I like soundtracks and I like film.

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

I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.

I've never worried about how long the song is.

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

I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.

I personally don't like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes wrong.

If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.

I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.

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.

In the time between records, I always have lots of stuff going on. I shoot photography, make little sculptures, play video games.

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

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.

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

I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.