Maynard James Keenan

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.

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.

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

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

There's nothing more fun than sitting in a circle playing with people who are really into it.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.