99 Quotes by Devin Townsend

I don't think anything that I have done has been forced by commerce exclusively.

I just go where it feels the most honest to go; then I deal with people thinking it's weird afterwards.

I think a lot of the fun of making records, for me, is making each one of them a situation. For example, with 'Ghost,' I found a group of people that had an energy together, and we kind of did it in a cabin somewhere.

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.

I really like female singers; I've got zero interest in working with male singers. Any male voice I need to do, I can do.

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.

When I make music, I tend to make music that are really over the top.

Not only was it Def Leppard I was into when I was 15, but 'Watermark' by Enya. I loved it.

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.'