Quotes By Maynard James Keenan

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.

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

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.

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

I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.

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.

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.

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.

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.

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

If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.