Maynard James Keenan

"You really should be able to feel the higher power of music and be moved by it, rather than listening to me waffle on and having to explain it."

"The army influences everything I do. Certainly it teaches you discipline, which is a necessary element of development. I think there's more of a collaborative understanding in the band because of that…"

"Every now and then, you get people who tend to forget what this country is about, which is a melting pot of races and cultures and freedom of speech."

"It's the role of us to run our government, the government by the people, for the people, and I don't think our government is listening to the people. It's our role as patriots to question them, becaus…"

"The process that we go through in recording with Tool is very organic, but at the same time it is very thought out. There is a very left-brain process of dissecting what we're doing and drawing from s…"

"I think there’s a reason why wine figures into so many religions. There’s something transcendent about it. It’s sort of the way that music is more than the sum of its parts. You have all these element…"

"Tool is not Slayer. I went to art school. I spent three years in the military. There's more to me than throwing devil horns."

"You can grow grapes in almost any part of the world. You just have to develop your palate enough to realize wine is an expression of the place where you make it. You don't have to take over the world;…"