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

Maynard James Keenan

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" We're just four guys and we are enjoying what we're doing with Tool. "

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

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

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

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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. "

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

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

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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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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" There is still a future with music, because people want music. "

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

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