Maynard James Keenan

But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

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.

I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.

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

Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.

Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.

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.

Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

There is still a future with music, because people want music.

Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.

The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich.