I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility. — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
Whenever you try to work through the things that we're trying to work through, that we're addressing, it ends up looking negative. Our goal is nonjudgment, nonfiltered acceptance of everything. So much of our background collectively, especially in the United… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Why did Father give these humans free will? Now they're all confused. — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
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 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 easily. — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
