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" 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. "

Maynard James Keenan

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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" Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even. "

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" The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich. "

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" The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal? "

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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" Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don't know what to expect. "

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

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

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" You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell. "

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

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" Prescott National Forest is right on the edge of my home in Arizona. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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