Desert, in generally, is a very good place to find yourself. Or lose yourself. — Maynard James Keenan Desert Copy Share Image
Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads. — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even. — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
“People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to WalMart, so be it.” — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
“I may find peace with in the emptiness, how pitiful.” — Maynard James Keenan Emptiness Copy Share Image
Life is too short not to create something with every breath we draw. — Maynard James Keenan Breath Copy Share Image
Why did Father give these humans free will? Now they're all confused. — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us. — Maynard James Keenan Art Copy Share Image
Knuckle deep inside the borderline. This may hurt a little but it's something you'll get used to. Relax. Slip away. — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something… — Maynard James Keenan Art Copy Share Image
But you know, I'm the negative-Nancy, curmudgeon, glass-half-empty-with-a-leak-in-it guy - which is basically the fuel that fires me up anyway. Without that,… — Maynard James Keenan Curmudgeon Copy Share Image
For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it. — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
“Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers, between supposed brothers.” — Maynard James Keenan Cold Copy Share Image
I think that every collective that you witness occurring on a stage, it's not about any one of the individuals. There's something… — Maynard James Keenan Alchemy Copy Share Image
The army influences everything I do. Certainly it teaches you discipline, which is a necessary element of development. I think there's more… — Maynard James Keenan Army Copy Share Image
It's the role of us to run our government, the government by the people, for the people, and I don't think our… — Maynard James Keenan Country Copy Share Image
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… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
This sort of behavior is left to the psychotic, dogmatic, fundamentalist believers you see on your TV everyday letting off bombs and… — Maynard James Keenan Atheism Copy Share Image
“So good to see you once again. I thought that you were hiding. And you thought that I had run away. Chasing… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
There's conflict in everything, just trying to buy a used car you deal with people that you don't want to deal with,… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
“I know the pieces fit 'cause I watched them tumble down No fault, none to blame, it doesn't mean I don't desire… — Maynard James Keenan Communication Copy Share Image
A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor. — Maynard James Keenan Comedy Copy Share Image
“Scramble to reach higher ground. Order and sanity, something to comfort me.” — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
Liar, lawyer, mirror show me. What’s the difference? — Maynard James Keenan Differences Copy Share Image
It's in my blood. My great-grandfather made wine and it's a tradition I want to pass on to my son. — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
I'm a lot easier to work with now than I have been in the past, for sure. — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don't know what to expect — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
Prescott National Forest is right on the edge of my home in Arizona. — Maynard James Keenan Arizona Copy Share Image
After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands. — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
I think people in general have neglected to learn about history. — Maynard James Keenan History Copy Share Image
Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function. — Maynard James Keenan Brain Copy Share Image
Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer. — Maynard James Keenan Art Copy Share Image
Blending is just like writing lyrics or finishing up the song, rearranging and arranging. — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
