Quotes By Maynard James Keenan

I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.

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.

I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.

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

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.