Tag Archives: Justin Chancellor

I'm still like a little kid about it, where I'm just so happy and excited that people want to come to our shows and watch us play. I still go outside the venues and take a picture of our name on the marquees. I still feel like I'm trying hard to be in a good […]

The whole thing about Tool is that it kind of feeds on itself. If it's going, it's going. If it's at a grinding halt, there's either the will to pick it up again and get it going or not. We've been through serious stages of nothing… business problems or personal problems or whatever. Justin Chancellor

Everyone knows we take our time. We're really trying to be responsible with ourselves in trying to discover ideas that haven't been discovered before. It's kind of an alchemy, how we experiment. Justin Chancellor

We are all musicians, and we're not really good musicians. But we have this gracious gift that has been bestowed on us, and we don't want to disappoint. So I guess our biggest fear would be, just giving up. Justin Chancellor

If you start to believe the hype about yourself, then you start to lose the bigger picture, and your focus is in the wrong place. Justin Chancellor

When you're getting older, you think about what you have to offer, and what's the point of your life. Justin Chancellor

Maybe you have a particular type of sound you want to go for, but if you really want to be original, there's no real recipe for that. For me it's just about letting it come to you… if you can let your head clear out, then almost anything is available. Justin Chancellor

Anything you spend a long time on, of course it would be nice if everyone likes it. But I think the strength that we've got is that we always concentrate on what we want it to be like and not really trying to please other people. Justin Chancellor

As you grow older, you want to learn, you want to change, you want to evolve and you don't want to live in fear. Fear is the mind killer. Justin Chancellor

We lock ourselves away and we concentrate on what we're doing and try not to think about the madness that's surrounding it, and all the hype. Justin Chancellor