39 Quotes by Danny Carey

Most of the parts are really gone over and over and over again with Tool. It's a very composed situation. We spend weeks if not months working on all those songs. There's not much room for improvisation.

It drove me mad not being able to know more about Pink Floyd when I was a little kid. But that's the great thing - there was this mystery behind it, and we couldn't find out enough. It made your mind work, it made you seek after it or try to interpret it. It made you envision or imagine what they were doing.

We rarely write in the studio. Everything's already completely arranged before we go in. That way, we can really focus on getting the recording right.

Making 13-minute tracks is pretty alternative, I think!

We toured for close to three years after 'Undertow' came out, so by the time we started to work on 'AEnima,' we had matured as functional musicians, and that changes your sound completely. Once you have that kind of freedom, an idea will come into your head and you can do it justice.

Before 'AEnima,' we were just following our gut. There was a lot of anger in the air and we never tried to control that. But just as we mature as humans, with 'AEnima' we tried to be fueled more by spiritual ideas or more of a conscious mode of aiming things in the right place or trying to take more responsibility for our art.

Our crowds seem to keep growing whether we put out a record or not, so I feel very lucky to have that support.

Our fans are loyal as can be, that's for sure.

It's pretty weird to me that our music is as popular as it is.