I work best when you give me a puzzle and a set of parameters. Billy had been kicking around this music for a long time, and I think it motivated him for me to go, “OK, we have exactly five minutes to do this.” Eventually, I was going to have to get back to Tool and I wouldn’t have time to work on anything else. So if we were going to do this, we needed to do it now. And because we just absolutely had no time, we were able to create something pure without overthinking it.
