Quotes from Maynard James Keenan

There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist.

A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.

Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.

I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.

I feel like there's no real innovation in having some music. It's more just unique personalities and unique expressions, and you being able to tell your story.

I feel like with music there's so much ego rooted in expressing your thoughts and your experiences with it.

After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.

But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.

Life feeds on life... feeds on life feeds on life... this is neccesary... this is necessary life feeds on life... feeds on life

You really should be able to feel the higher power of music and be moved by it, rather than listening to me waffle on and having to explain it.

Desert, in generally, is a very good place to find yourself. Or lose yourself.

But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.

Prescott National Forest is right on the edge of my home in Arizona.

People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to Wal-Mart, so be it.

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.

Life is too short not to create something with every breath we draw.

Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos.

I think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue that goes on that I just assume you can hear.

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

Jesus Christ, why dont you come save my life. Open my eyes and blind me with your light and your lies.

For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.