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" 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. "

Maynard James Keenan

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Live

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

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