Maynard James Keenan Quotes

“And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.”
― Maynard James Keenan

“If I let you, you would make me destroy myself. In order to survive you, I must first survive myself. I can sink no further, and I cannot forgive you. There's no choice but to confront you, to engage you, to erase you. I've gone to great lengths to expand my threshold of pain. I will use my mistakes against you. There's no other choice. Shameless now. Nameless now. Nothing now. No one now. But my soul must be iron, 'cause my fear is naked. I'm naked and fearless, and my fear is naked.”
― Henry Rollins

“If I let you, you would make me destroy myself. In order to survive you, I must first survive myself. I can sink no further, and I cannot forgive you. There's no choice but to confront you, to engage you, to erase you. I've gone to great lengths to expand my threshold of pain. I will use my mistakes against you. There's no other choice. I'm shameless now, I'm nameless now. I'm nothing now, I'm no one now. But my soul must be iron, 'cause my fear is naked. I'm naked and fearless, and my fear is naked.”
― Henry Rollins

“Truth, when forged in the fires of emotions, can swell and loom over Fact likes a veil of impenetrable mithril, allowing the unreal to seem more plausible, more desirable, and over time, shift all into a new shared and accepted, albeit fictitious, paradigm.”
― Ronald P. Vincent, The Joyful Guide To Lachrymology