Maynard James Keenan

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

#once #seriously #suffer #take #too

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

— Maynard James Keenan

#i #legend #yet

Because as an only child, you have your own little world. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

#child #little #only #own #world

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

#basically #fires #fuel #guy #i

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

#anywhere #i #i am #i can #i write

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

#historical #i #i see #lot #nation

Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

#inspired #music #our #our music #release

I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

#clowns #emulate #fellow #hope #i

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

— Maynard James Keenan

#easier #i #in the past #lot #now

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

#circle #circles #each #end #eternity