Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.
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 KeenanPeople get upset and it becomes an excuse to treat other people a certain way,but if you really step back, you realize what you've left behind.
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