During a day of interviews to plug Puscifer, vocalist and lyricist Maynard James Keenan and singer Carina Round met with an excited German journalist. He’d prepared questions about Normal Isn’t, the band’s new album, but went off topic and gushed about how much he loved Tool. Not one to cater to flattery, Maynard’s responses became increasingly terse. Oblivious to his faux pas, the writer continued to jabber.
“Maynard was getting really irritated by all the fawning,” recalls Carina, sitting in her studio in LA, wearing a brown cardigan over a Whitesnake t-shirt. “It got to the point where I felt like Maynard was going to break, so I said, [quoting a line from Monty Python’s Life Of Brian], ‘He’s not the Messiah. He’s a very naughty boy,’ and we both started laughing, which broke the tension and pretty much ended the interview.”
