"The army influences everything I do. Certainly it teaches you discipline, which is a necessary element of development. I think there's more of a collaborative understanding in the band because of that."

“It’s in my blood. My great-grandfather made wine and it’s a tradition I want to pass on to my son.”

“For the music, it’s not about the individual — so the more you let the music speak for yourself, the more powerful the music will be.”

“You can grow grapes in almost any part of the world. You just have to develop your palate enough to realize wine is an expression of the place where you make it. You don't have to take over the world; just be an artist and express your area.”

“Tool is not Slayer. I went to art school. I spent three years in the military. There's more to me than throwing devil horns.”

“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.”

“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.”