Top 50 Quotes by Maynard James Keenan

A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.

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.

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.

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

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.

I'm a lot easier to work with now than I have been in the past, for sure.

You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.

I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour.