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, we wouldn't have me. — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability To lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share
I think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue that goes… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share
I'm not an educated man. I only know what I'm told, and I'm not told that much; I have no frame of reference for… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share
Why did Father give these humans free will? Now they're all confused. — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share
The process that we go through in recording with Tool is very organic, but at the same time it is very thought out. There… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share
Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily. — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share
The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share
“If I let you, you would make me destroy myself. in order to survive you, I must first survive myself. I can sink no… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share
All I can do is say I smell a rat. I don't know where it is or what kind of rat it is, but… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share
I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share
I want to find a genie in a bottle that can grant me three wishes. I want to be able to speak, read, write,… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share
I think psychedelics play a major part in what we do, but having said that, I feel that if somebody's going to experiment with… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share
I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility. — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share
