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Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.

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

Maynard James Keenan

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

Maynard James Keenan

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.

Maynard James Keenan

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

Maynard James Keenan

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

Maynard James Keenan

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.

Maynard James Keenan

I think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue that goes on that I just assume you can hear.

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

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

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

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I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.

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

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

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

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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.

Maynard James Keenan

People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to Wal-Mart, so be it.

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

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

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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.

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

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

Maynard James Keenan

Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.

Maynard James Keenan

If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.

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

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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.

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Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.

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

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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.

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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.

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