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

Maynard James Keenan

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" 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. "

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

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

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" We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle. "

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" Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer. "

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

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

Maynard James Keenan

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

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

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

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

Maynard James Keenan

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

Maynard James Keenan

" 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

" 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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" 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. "

Maynard James Keenan

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

Maynard James Keenan

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

Maynard James Keenan

" I've always had an affinity for growing things. "

Maynard James Keenan

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

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" 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. "

Maynard James Keenan

" Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos. "

Maynard James Keenan

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

Maynard James Keenan

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

Maynard James Keenan

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

Maynard James Keenan

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

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

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