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
Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.
I believe that when you go into a gallery or a museum, the most powerful pieces are the ones that don't have the words in the corner that distract you from the larger piece.
Desert, in generally, is a very good place to find yourself. Or lose yourself.
I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.
Prescott National Forest is right on the edge of my home in Arizona.
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.