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All Quotes by author - Maynard James Keenan

" A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral. "

" Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos. "

" Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny. "

" 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. "

" After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands. "

" A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" But you know, I'm the negative-Nancy, curmudgeon, glass-half-empty-with-a-leak-in-it guy - which is basically the fuel that fires me up anyway. Without that, we wouldn't have me. "

" Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool. "

" Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music. "

" For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live. "

" I always knew that I wanted to be an artist. "

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

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

" If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets. "

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

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

" I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes. "

" I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big. "

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

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

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