Recognize this as a holy gift and celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing.
Maynard James KeenanI would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.
Maynard James KeenanMost religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.
Maynard James KeenanI want to find a genie in a bottle that can grant me three wishes. I want to be able to speak, read, write, and understand any language ever written or spoken, just any language throughout the history of man. That would be one of my wishes from the genie, so I would have to put "multilingual" on the resume, should I ever find the genie.
Maynard James KeenanWhenever 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 States, is denying and suppressing and disowning a lot of negativity and the darker areas. You can become swallowed up in it. It's cancerous. The goal should be to define acceptance for everything. To try and consider every aspect. To try to look into the shadows, as well as the light.
Maynard James Keenan