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 KeenanThe trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug.
Maynard James KeenanJust 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 KeenanI 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 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