Music as work

“There are several ways you can go with music. You can use music as a medication; to just kinda click out and use it as a backdrop and not really think about what’s going on in your everyday life. Or, you can use music as a catalyst to do some searching. To do some soul searching. To do some growing. And that’s the kind of band we are. That’s the kind of music we perpetuate. Soul searching music. Something that’s gonna make you get involved and do some work.”
–Maynard James Keenan, Tool