For me, music is a byproduct of this process – the human process – and the fact that I’ve managed to eke out a career with it is a happy accident more than any strategy. Devin Townsend Read Quote
I’m not a big fan of options, to be honest. The more options that I have, the less time that I spend actually completing things… ultimately, I think, if you have endless choices, I mean, the tendency to just choose endlessly is there, and that doesn’t do anything for anybody, really. Devin Townsend Read Quote
The album ‘Physicist,’ I erased all the work that I had done halfway through. I think that’s probably why that contributed to that album being sort of sub-par for me, just because by the time I had to go back and do it, I was just over it. Devin Townsend Read Quote
The risk a lot of times, in my mind – and I may be incorrect – the risk of challenging people directly with their beliefs is that society is such that there’s too many of us, so a direct challenge automatically engages people’s defenses. Devin Townsend Read Quote
There is no way I’ll ever write an album for Avril Lavigne or Christina Aguilera. I just couldn’t do it. There is no way I could ever do it because my musical process is about being directly involved with whatever I’m going through in life. Devin Townsend Read Quote
I like Canada for a number of reasons, politics and people and all that stuff aside. I was raised there, and I write music best when I’m in situations that I’m surrounded by nature, and when there’s seasons. Devin Townsend Read Quote
The bottom line is music, for me, is an exhaust port for life, and if I have a chaotic year, then I’m gonna write a chaotic record, and that’s what happened with ‘Ziltoid,’ with ‘Z2.’ Devin Townsend Read Quote
I have a real hard time with inter-personal relationships. I find it really taxing. Especially, like, friendships and being in bands. Devin Townsend Read Quote
I think, at the end of the day, that was really what the reward for production is for me, is being allowed to be a part of somebody else’s musical vision for a while. Like Gwar. I got to do a Gwar record, right? That was great. Devin Townsend Read Quote
