Quotes from Adam Jones

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

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

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

I'm not a good guitar player.

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

Fine art is really something I want to get into.

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

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

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

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

The Melvins are grunge.

As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.

I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.

If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There's always the influence of music, film, art and the other things that drive me. I'm usually inspired by my environment and whatever is making me happy or mad.

Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.

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