Maynard james keenan

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.

Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.

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.

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.

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

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.

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

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.