Quotes By Maynard James Keenan

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

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.

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.

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

A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories.

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

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

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.

You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

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 would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.

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?

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

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.

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

I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.

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

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

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