Maynard james keenan

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

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

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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