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Ace · 12-18-2007, 04:21 AM

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AVC: Given how many records Tool sells, do you feel your message just gets diluted anyway?

MJK: Oh, it's going to get diluted. I tested the water with the political album A Perfect Circle did. [Until 2005, Keenan was pulling double-duty in A Perfect Circle; the political album was 2004's covers EP eMOTIVe. —ed.] I didn't even write those songs; I was just letting people hear what was said before me, the things that inspired me as a child, and things that were said during various turbulent times. And I was ****ing crucified. If you go back and listen to that album and just forget that it's covers, it's a good album, but I was crucified because of its content, because there's an army of little ****ing brats out there just going into every little chat room, talking **** and undermining anybody who has anything to say. It's like this insane, 1984/Big Brother infrastructure.

MJK \m/