“You hear something and go, ‘Oh, what’s that? That sounds good’ – then you realise it’s actually something you’ve done! It then occurs to you just how much prejudice you’ve got against your own stuff. “A nice part of it is randomly hearing it on the radio when you’re not expecting it because you’re not thinking, ‘This is my stuff,’” he explains. Whenever he does re-encounter Tool’s music away from having to bring it to life onstage, it often comes to him as a surprise. We’re all composers, and that’s part of the process, trying to figure it out internally: you go to sleep with it and you wake up with it.” “During the time we’re writing, it’s in our head 24 hours a day. “It’s the case with a lot of our records, because we spend so much time constructing them,” he begins. In fact, he rarely revisits albums he’s played on. Ahead of this trip down memory lane, Justin admits he is not typically someone who’s hardwired for nostalgia.
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