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?

The flaw of an amateur is to assume what's in our head is what's on the page.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.