Top 50 Quotes by Maynard James Keenan

A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.

A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories.

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

But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.

I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.

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.

Yeah, because I think it's more important just to inspire people to wake up one day and pick up a book and start feeling it out for themselves.

Prescott National Forest is right on the edge of my home in Arizona.

One of the challenges we set up for 'Puscifer' was to come up with a core identity and see how far we can push it.