Quotes from 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 just the medium.

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

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.

I'm a lot easier to work with now than I have been in the past, for sure.

Finding beauty in the dissonance.

Recognize this as a holy gift and celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing.

I've always had an affinity for growing things.

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

If you want to get your soul to heaven, trust in me. Don't judge or question. You are broken now, but faith can heal you. Just do everything I tell you to do.

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

Every now and then, you get people who tend to forget what this country is about, which is a melting pot of races and cultures and freedom of speech.

Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

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.

There is still a future with music, because people want music.

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.

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.

The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich.

Prescott National Forest is right on the edge of my home in Arizona.

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.

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.