Maynard J. Keenan Quotes

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

"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."

"Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool."

"I think people in general have neglected to learn about history."

"Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them."

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

"I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes."

"And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about."

"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."

"I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium."

"If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets."

"Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music."

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

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

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

"After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands."

"Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music."

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

"For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live."