Maynard James Keenan

"People that just assume that we're hatefull don't understand that hate, and anger, are two completely separate energies. They might have a similar emotional charge to them but anger is a much more constructive... emotion, than hate, and that's what we're more about, it's the anger. Not all our music, i'm just saying that particular element that people see in it: the agressive nature, the emotional or angry nature of it; and in conjunction with the more compationate, there's a lot of light in our music, there's a lot of light in the end of the tunel, but of course you have to make an effort, to purge yourself through more of the muck to get there."

July 1997