Maynard James Keenan

“Fuck smiley glad hands with hidden agendas.”

— Maynard James Keenan

I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead.

— Maynard James Keenan

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.

— Maynard James Keenan

Sure, I love fairy tales.

— Maynard James Keenan

Do unto others what has been done to you,

— Maynard James Keenan

You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.

— Maynard James Keenan

We are eternal. All this pain is an illusion.

— Maynard James Keenan

“You answer your own questions.”

— Maynard James Keenan

“If God is our father you thought, than Satan must be our cousin.”

— Maynard James Keenan

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

— Maynard James Keenan

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

— Maynard James Keenan

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

— Maynard James Keenan

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

— Maynard James Keenan

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

— Maynard James Keenan

Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.

— Maynard James Keenan

“You minimize my moves in anyway, I must persuade you another way.”

— Maynard James Keenan

I think that people get outraged over things. I think what we really need is a kind of borderline extinction level event…

— Maynard James Keenan

If you want to get your soul to heaven, trust in me. Don't judge or question. You are broken now, but faith…

— Maynard James Keenan

“Threw you the obvious and you flew with it on your back, A name in your recollection, down among a million same."…

— 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…

— Maynard James Keenan

A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back…

— Maynard James Keenan

I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or…

— 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…

— Maynard James Keenan

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

— Maynard James Keenan

I think the Grammys are nothing more than some gigantic promotional machine for the music industry. They cater to a low intellect…

— Maynard James Keenan

All I can do is say I smell a rat. I don't know where it is or what kind of rat it…

— Maynard James Keenan

There are people who are like monkeys in a cage just hitting the coke button. They don't really get that for [musicians…

— Maynard James Keenan

If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from,…

— Maynard James Keenan

One of my biggest heroes in music has been David Bowie. He's said, 'I'm going to be a painter now, or I'm…

— Maynard James Keenan

You can grow grapes in almost any part of the world. You just have to develop your palate enough to realize wine…

— Maynard James Keenan

To put things back into perspective, back when we as people were struggling to survive through winters, or even through the night,…

— Maynard James Keenan

The process that we go through in recording with Tool is very organic, but at the same time it is very thought…

— Maynard James Keenan

“If I let you, you would make me destroy myself. in order to survive you, I must first survive myself. I can…

— Maynard James Keenan

“Up until the mid twentieth century the mountain gorilla was considered a myth. Oddly enough, a legend not unlike bigfoot or the…

— Maynard James Keenan

Whenever you try to work through the things that we're trying to work through, that we're addressing, it ends up looking negative.…

— Maynard James Keenan

I think psychedelics play a major part in what we do, but having said that, I feel that if somebody's going to…

— Maynard James Keenan

I think artists are going to express things from an emotional point of view, that's their job, to suggest and interpret, and…

— Maynard James Keenan

Finding beauty in the dissonance

— Maynard James Keenan

I've always had an affinity for growing things.

— Maynard James Keenan

Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers

— Maynard James Keenan