Artist Quote by Maynard James Keenan

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

— Maynard James Keenan

We are eternal. All this pain is an illusion.

— Maynard James Keenan

Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability To lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here

— 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 that goes…

— Maynard James Keenan

Why did Father give these humans free will? Now they're all confused.

— 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 out. There…

— Maynard James Keenan

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

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

“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

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

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

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