I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do. – Maynard James Keenan
Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music. – 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 to archetypes and their stories. – 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, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets. – 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 to them. – 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 something in common. – Maynard James Keenan
We’re five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle. – Maynard James Keenan
I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour. – Maynard James Keenan
For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn’t matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live. – Maynard James Keenan
There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist. – Maynard James Keenan
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
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
Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function. – Maynard James Keenan
A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end – and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral. – Maynard James Keenan
People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to Wal-Mart, so be it. – Maynard James Keenan
Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes. – Maynard James Keenan
I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something. – 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 on that I just assume you can hear. – Maynard James Keenan
I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us. – Maynard James Keenan
