Killing Joke's Jaz Coleman: Enhancing the ego of the individual is a good way to control them

"When I stopped drinking it felt like I’d been away and come back. It felt intense after I stopped drinking. It felt like I had been away and I don’t know what had been there in between but it wasn’t altogether me. I think alcoholism is possession, like spiritual possession" - Jaz Coleman, the Killing Joke frontman said in a Brooklyn Vegan interview. The band is on a tour with Tool now, and Coleman has in interesting thought about them - "You know they start on one idea and end on a different idea with the songs almost lasting an hour sometimes with lots of changes. Tool’s music is like this. They don’t use sonata form; you know introduction, verse, chorus, verse, development, and outro. They strike me as a band inspired by Eastern principles before even being there". Tool forbid smartphones on their shows, and Coleman says - "I go along with it and will do as many selfies as people want. I go along with it but I don’t like it". About people documenting their lives instead of living it - "enhancing the ego of the individual is a good way to control them".