One of the challenges we set up for 'Puscifer' was to come up with a core identity and see how far we can push it.
Maynard James KeenanIf 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 KeenanPut a small child in a playpen with an apple and a bunny. If s/he eats the apple and plays with the bunny, s/he's normal;but if s/he eats the bunny and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car. Somewhere along the line we must have been TAUGHT to do the wrong thing.
Maynard James KeenanThis sort of behavior is left to the psychotic, dogmatic, fundamentalist believers you see on your TV everyday letting off bombs and killing people in the name of God. Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.
Maynard James Keenan