"I think psychedelics play a major part in what we do, but having said that, I feel that if somebody's going to experiment with those things they really need to educate themselves about them. People just taking the chemicals and diving in without having any kind of preparation about what they're about to experience tend to have no frame of reference, so they're missing everything flying by and all these new perspectives. It's just a waste. They reach a little bit of spiritual enlightenment, but they end up going, 'Well, now I need that drug to get back there again.' The 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 Keenan
�I�m breathin� so I guess I�m still alive, though signs seem to tell me otherwise� �Maynard James Keenan
�Do unto others what has been done to me�
"If there were no rewards to reap, no loving embrace to see me through this tedious path I've chosen here,I certainly would've walked away by now." - Maynard james keenan
"What I wear, how I walk, who I'm fucking, what I eat, what time I go to bed has nothing to do with what we're doing. I don't embrace anybody. I want my space, my distance. I'm not a very warm person." ~Maynard James Keenan~
"Music today is so empty and horrible that it' like the end of the world is nearly here. I'm sure the letters 'TRL' are in some way incorporated into a Nostrodamus book of end-of-the-world prophecies" -Maynard James Keenan.
"Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing" -Maynard James Keenan
"I love fairy tales" -Maynard on Christianity