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?

For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded.

Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.

Twice a week I would receive injections or IV's of Factor VIII which clotted the blood and then broke it down.