I think Maynard here gave a much deeper answer than the interviewer was hoping for

He's wearing high heels and a b-cup in this interview.

“Believe nothing, but consider everything.” - I will be stealing this quote.

The irony is the people who say "If you know Maynard, you know he's being a troll here" don't actually know Maynard.

Funny how people that don't get what he's talking about automatically assume that he's trying to screw with the interviewer.

Nope. This interview is completely sincere. When he is a troll you can definitely tell. Here he is not one.

He sure is trying to walk in their shoes :)

He looks like he has some feminine qualities under that t-shirt.

"I don't have my moon every month, I'm not that connected to the Earth" That was kinda beautiful

This dude is extremely sincere idk what you guys are talking about

"I dont have my moon every month."

mad respect for interviewers/camerapersons that carried around those super heavy cameras back in the day

Why does everyone think he's being sarcastic and ironic here? Because they can't process the words he's saying?

I like how he was always waay ahead of his time and didn't mind having "feminine characteristics" (the interviewer made it sound like a bad thing) because guess what?? we all have "feminine and masculine characteristics" (yin and yang energy). We should all embrace it and find balance as he said. Few people have this level of consciousness. I love this man.

The shirt is next level for 1997

I love hearing him speak. I feel like his voice could just drift me to sleep. He sounds so gentle when in conversation. Love you Maynard x

This comment section has some issues with their own feminine energy

Comments: 'He disagrees with me so he must be joking'

"I can try to walk in your shoes." 0:15

This is a message to Maynard. Please reply if you remember this day. There was a concert in Seattle where Tool played with the Rollins Band. Early 90's. Tool still had a van with the Tool logo drawn on it ( painted?). I waited after the concert, outside by the sidewalk. I was hoping for an autograph. I noticed a man beating up a girl nearby and all the people were just standing around...afraid. I tackled the guy, did not strike him, only subdued the attacker. I was a Military Policeman. I could not stand by and let a person get beat up..let alone a small girl. Others then came to aid the girl and some pushed the guy away and told him to shove off. This is when You, Maynard, walked up to me and shook my hand and said "Good job". My friends were amazed saying " Scott, that was Maynard!" I had no idea it was you, but i will take a handshake over an autograph ANY DAY! MAYNARD, DO YOU REMEMBER THIS DAY? IF SO, WILL YOU REPLY? Long time fan, from back in the day...old school skater/punk/thrasher/head. Love to hear from you.

God do I love Maynard, called my monthly period a monthly "moon". gotta love it.

he is pretty smart cause one of the few people who knows the difference between sympathy and empathy

Interviewer: you are really girly. Maynard: na I am a dude that grew up a dude. But I can only imagine how hard it is to be a woman. Interviewer: na you are very girly.

Maynard is deep, don't matter how he appears, what he wears, through his lyrics you just know he is deeply spiritual and high vibration.

I love this guy. I just noticed his shirt too and I can’t stop laughing. Very excited for this upcoming album.

! THERE IT FUCKING IS ! The 'Free Frances Bean' t-shirt! Tool is a gem

when it comes to emotional intelligence Maynard is a genius

Man this guy inspires me... so in touch..

This man is incredibly inciteful. He doesn’t even hesitate in his responses which says to me he has already considered the issues he is being questioned about. How many other people would answer these questions in such a deep way. Oh and he’s also happens to be a top singer and lyricist as well!!

that no quarter scream gave me chills down my spine...

Thank you! A perspective I was in desperate need of hearing, reaffirming, and knowing it's ok that it's really frackin hard.

not many are capable of this level of sarcasm.

Y’all are out of control, how is this trolling??? What did he say that was a joke or untrue??

He's the opposite of dudes who try and tell women how to live as a woman. He lacks the entitlement to say, "My guess is better than your experiences." More people should be so capable of saying 'I do not know.'

Damn what a brilliant guy. So much salient information packed in a couple minutes

This little interview excerpt and hearing maynard say these things about femininity makes me so fucking happy. Damn.

“I don’t have my moon every month” wow he is so well spoken. I only wish I had a way with words like that. Oof

Do you think irationality is a feminine quality? That's a fucking great question from that interviewer

Maynard was a based femboy in this interview

Maynard is the only person i know who can talk esoteric and still make sense

"I dont have my moon every month, im not that connected to the earth" This made me smile. So many men see parts of being female (Not to exclude trans women) as disgusting or unnatural or weird, ive always seen it as beautiful. Women are amazing, so many parts of femininity are gorgeous and unique, im glad there are dudes that respect that.

Lmao his shirt. RIP Kurt

reading these comments killed a whole bunch of my brain cells

is his shirt about cobain's daugter?

Interviewer: do you have feminine qualities? Maynard, wearing high heels and a bra: .... no.

I love how Maynard just screws with people.

Thank you for being who you are Maynard and thank you for your music

IMO what Maynard said regarding himself being much more sympathetic - opposed to empathetic - towards a feminine point of view was a very accurate and plausible statement. As a man myself I can say that I feel the same way. The reason being is because although I can sympathize, show compassion, and attempt to gain a better understanding of various feminine beliefs and perspectives, until I have actually "walked in the shoes of a woman" per say, I cannot possibly possess the ability to empathize, or actually SHARE those same feelings of another woman. I've always wondered how my general outlook on life would change if I could...

When asked about what he is feeling, thinking, searching for, etc MJK is sometimes just plain trolling and strangely enough sometimes he is quite sincere. I wonder if it is his mood, the way the questions are asked, the vibe he gets from the interviewer, or something else.

I thought that this might be an enlightening interview. Don't know what I was expecting.

Some day I hope to find myself randomly sitting next to Maynard and hopefully he'll be in a good mood and we'll have a memorable conversation. That would be really cool. ⚘

And this right here … is why I love Maynard and Tool so much. HE GETS IT. This is a RARE RARE quality. So much respect Maynard!!!! Bestie! Lol

I like the Free Francis Bean shirt. Wonder if he means the literary FB or Cobain's daughter?

This guy is on like 10 different levels of irony

I've been listening to potions all evening. I Love that sooong. Maynard is thoughtful sounding in this clip. I wish guys 'round here would talk like that.

This is what it sounds like to be a rockstar back in the 90's w/ access to some of the best drugs money could buy.

Compassion and empathy are not feminine traits exclusively.

To all of the dear commentators on this video: There isn't a "real" Maynard.

While listening to the album, Opiate, and reading "Demon-Haunted World" by Carl Sagan, he makes mention of a book by Thomson Gilovich, "How To Know What Isn't So". Parallels were drawn on that day.

I respect this man so much because he keeps moving forward and deals with his feelings even though he cant explain or understand some of the feelings he has endured. His music has like a spiritual message of trials and tribulations and trying to find out what is right for him and I am sure that with his life style as a performer and traveling and being famous he must have to adapt and become different personalities many times and then when he has a chance to rest he has to once again sift through all those personalities and try and figure out if its possible to choose one and stick with it? But this man really puts everything he has into performing and he's probably wondering why he's lasted so long, and when is like his voice going to get weaker, or something else to make him different and no longer as he has been? I hope he finds something else to take the place of his talents before something causes him to not be able to do what he does on stage because him and the Guitar man are like "ONE" great performer and band. But of course we all grow older, and besides that we all face nut cases and jealous people that would purposely cause us hardship for whatever reason they are using to try and cause us to change from what makes us different and talented? I am a house painter since I was 26 but I am 52 and I am older but I am still good but my body is saying "Hey, you have done no work for years and I'm out of shape?" Meanwhile my mind is not listening to my body until I start painting and my body starts aching? So shit happens to our bodies over time? But I saw videos of Maynard in his younger days where he was having fun, unsure of himself, behaving not serious but wanting to, and then I compare and see how serious he turned, possessed by every word he sings, trying to be perfect and does perform perfect in my opinion? And his perseverance to me is Green Beret material to me? I mean he's a fighter, and seems to be a genuinely good person to others who treat him good. So I think your GREAT Maynard and your other half who plays Guitar with his long hair covering up his face giving you all the attention because he loves you like a true brotherly love and your happiness is his so he lays low and makes sure you get the attention, for he could be like Angus Young their on AC-DC. who is a great performer but I know Maynard respects the Guitar guy there deeply subconsciously for not trying to get the audience to also "look over at him?" He is definitely a true friend to Maynard. You guys will always be great to me so I guess use can retire knowing this, haha. Peace people.

He isn't facetious just because you don't relate to what he says and would like him to be.

I've only opened up about my struggles to women in my life. They are more emotionally supportive and empathetic. Men have only told me to 'get over it' 'brush it off'.

Man, listening to Maynard talk is really something else. People forget that he's just a human because the way he words things is different.

I wish people could conversate like this. And it's so easy. Just drop the ego and realize that your experience is not the only one.

I love you too, Maynard!!

'We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.' Buddha

Can't wait to go to their concert next year

He’s just simply amazing, is an understatement 🤴🏼

I assumed from his disposition that MJK didn’t have a reflection..

pitch black eyes, brilliant way of speaking, heavily pronounced facial structure, slightly pointed ears........

The platform heels he’s rocking help to channel that earth connection I bet.

thanks for the video

I respect this dude so much. Genius.

King, stream Tool on Spotify

Maynard is deep. It reflect in his music. Let the artist have an open palate to create.

Maynard makes my dreams come true

My question is whether Maynard has stepped through his shadow and "completed" his anima.

The best part about this interview is him talking about feminism and wearing that t shirt😂😂😂🤘🤘🤘

How could not love this man? Respect ❤️❤️

What did free Frances Bean mean? I can't find his opinion on Courtney and Kurt anywhere on YT?

0:40 she said "you seem to have a lot of feminine energy" this girl wasn't prepare for that, she can't realize that all is part of just an expression, MJK artistic expression. Maynard 0:56 "very intuitive very emotional very compassionate and some cases irrational that's an important movement", she didn't expect that, good answer M.

I love how this whole comment section is people arguing if he is sincere or sarcastic. My two cents has Maynard ever said anything in his entire life that isn't at least a little sarcastic?

He wrote a whole Tool song with that reply.

It’s a little tangential but I’m pretty sure he just responds by saying he tries his best to understand but can’t fully because he himself isn’t female, and then he kind of just starts talking about the importance of confronting other points of view and subject matter that is either hard to understand or hard to deal with in order to grow as a person. And like, the fact that he needs that balanced perspective (working towards having feminine energy to balance out the masculine) in order to fully communicate the emotion through the lyrics.

Low-key was scared it would be something horrible... Glad I got proven wrong. Love Tool! 🤘

I believe in nothing....but I have my suspicions. - R.A. Wilson

Recommended in 2021, still relevant

Oh my god I just fell in love with this guy

What the " free frances bean" shirt about? Like Cobain's daughter???

Does she know he's messing w her??

i love his "free Francis Bean" shirt

He's so pleasant to listen to. Seems to be increasingly hard to find these days 😕

He talks like I do when I'm hammered. No one knows wtf I'm talkin about and neither do I.

He's being serious here and as a woman I can understand what he is saying and I respect it. He clearly has some insight and has tried to experience womanhood by wearing the breasts and shoes. That's what he means by consider everything including that which you thought you shouldn't or was taboo i.e a male considering what it's like to be a female as in having a female body.

Energy is energy. I felt that.

Such thoughtful answers.

its so interesting that all the male fans dont think he's serious... that his kind of music, his expression couldnt have a feminine energy! he was good friends with tori amos around that time I bet they had a lot of talk about repression of the genders...

I wish Tool would get back to making more aggressive music..... I hope the next album is a hairy balled, white knuckled, knock down drag out, manly, fuck you world, heavy metal album. We've explored the feminine for a while now and speaking of balance I would REALLY like to get back to the more masculine and aggressive Tool of years past.

It’s like he’s being weird for the sake of being weird, like it’s him trying to be that way so he thinks it makes him more interesting

Maynard, never short of pontification