Strapping Young Lad is a vehicle for me to be wild and extroverted and ridiculous. It gives me the chance to say, 'Look at me. I'm a heavy metal guy. I'm Rob Halford or Bruce Dickinson or whoever.' — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
'Epicloud' is the first record that I felt confident enough to include all those things on one record, so it goes between melodic hard rock to schizophrenic heavy metal to country to really ambient stuff, and it's all in one… — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
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. — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
It's like... to make a good record - I don't care who you are - it takes a long time and a lot of… — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
I like Canada for a number of reasons, politics and people and all that stuff aside. I was raised there, and I write music… — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
I guess I'm not really into female vocals that sound masculine, I guess. A lot of times, the heavy female vocalists always end up… — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
For me, music is about expressing the inexpressible, and as I get older, man, what I feel the need to express becomes less and… — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
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… — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
I'm good at what I do but, to be honest, not a whole hell of a lot else! — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
After Strapping, the amount of things in my life had changed were more than I'd ever had to process in any one time, and… — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
In Strapping, I had experimented with a creative catharsis under the assumption that art doesn't need to be accountable for itself, but I found… — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
When I was going to high school, in the high school band we would play these kind of hour-long concerts for our parents. All… — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
I think when music, specifically heavy music, the motivation for it is other than truly feeling it, that's when it becomes really difficult for… — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
Strapping Young Lad is a vehicle for me to be wild and extroverted and ridiculous. It gives me the chance to say, 'Look at… — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
