Maynard James Keenan Quotes

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

But you know, I’m the negative-Nancy, curmudgeon, glass-half-empty-with-a-leak-in-it guy – which is basically the fuel that fires me up anyway. Without that, we wouldn’t have me.

People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to Wal-Mart, so be it.

But I’m a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I’m going to make something out of it.

You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.

Yeah, because I think it’s more important just to inspire people to wake up one day and pick up a book and start feeling it out for themselves.