Quotes By Maynard James Keenan

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.