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.

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

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.

I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.

In a small spacecraft, it was hard for the other two guys to sleep when the on-duty man was talking to Mission Control regularly.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.