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t.s. eliot said, when formulating his ideas for critical analysis of poetry, that details about the personal life of the author are completely irrelevant to the interpretation/critique of the poem.. it doesn't matter if maynard's just fucking with the listener or if he's a High Adept (as one of my friends believes), the important thing is what the songs mean to the listener.
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Yeah a little of the old "the birth of the audience comes at the death of the author" type of thing, the problem is that is not really perfectly accurate. Poets/Authors aren't likely to write about things they are not interested in so when it comes to interpteing their work of course you do not take everything literally, but looking at their life and trying to get an understanding often goes a long way into figuring out what is going on.