Top 50 Quotes by Maynard James Keenan

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.

Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don't know what to expect.

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

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

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.

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.

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.

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

I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.

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.