Quotes By Maynard James Keenan

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

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.

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.

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

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

I'm a lot easier to work with now than I have been in the past, for sure.

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

I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.

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.

I've always had an affinity for growing things.

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

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

Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.

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.

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.

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.

Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.

I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead.

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.

Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos.

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

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

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

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.

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

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

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

I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.

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

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