Maynard James Keenan
Maynard James Keenan
Maynard James Keenan, often referred to by his initials MJK, is an American musician, record producer, winemaker, and actor, best known as the vocalist for Grammy Award-winning progressive metal band Tool. He is originally from Ohio, but spent his high school and college years in Michigan. After serving in the United States Army in the early 1980s, he attended Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids. He moved to Los Angeles, California in 1988 to pursue a career...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth17 April 1964
CountryUnited States of America
A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.
And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.
Jesus Christ, why dont you come save my life. Open my eyes and blind me with your light and your lies.
There are people who are like monkeys in a cage just hitting the coke button. They don't really get that for [musicians and artists] to do these things, they have to fund them. They have to have something to pay the rent.
But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.
I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.
If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.
Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos.
Seems like Ive been here before. Seems so familiar. Seems like Im slipping into a dream within a dream.
But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.
All I can do is say I smell a rat. I don't know where it is or what kind of rat it is, but as an artist, I can express how. But I couldn't responsibly stand up and tell people which way to go, because then I'm just as guilty as the people who are telling everybody else what to do and where to go.
I think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue that goes on that I just assume you can hear.
I feel like with music there's so much ego rooted in expressing your thoughts and your experiences with it.
Why did Father give these humans free will? Now they're all confused.