Quotes from Maynard James Keenan

I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour.

One of the challenges we set up for 'Puscifer' was to come up with a core identity and see how far we can push it.

But you know, I'm the negative-Nancy, curmudgeon, glass-half-empty-with-a-leak-in-it guy - which is basically the fuel that fires me up anyway. Without that, we wouldn't have me.

If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.

Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability To lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here

Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.

Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.

We're just four guys and we are enjoying what we're doing with Tool.

A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.

We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.

The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich.

And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.

Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.

Yeah, because I think it's more important just to inspire people to wake up one day and pick up a book and start feeling it out for themselves.

Sure, I love fairy tales.

There is still a future with music, because people want music

It's a purging of sorts. Like, when you're all done doing your laundry and it's fresh and bright, but washing the clothes, you wouldn't want to get in while it's spinning around.

It's in my blood. My great-grandfather made wine and it's a tradition I want to pass on to my son.

You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.

I'm not an educated man. I only know what I'm told, and I'm not told that much; I have no frame of reference for how to place things in history be a responsible leader. All I can do is be an artist.

Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.

Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don't know what to expect.

Because as an only child, you have your own little world.

Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.