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Devin Townsend

Profession : Musician

Birth : May 5, 1972

If you think meet-and-greets are fundamentally stupid, then you're never not gonna think that.

Devin Townsend

I think that when I got to a certain age, it was important to me to sort of analyze my relationship with myself and my past.

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I don't have a lot of time for people who don't take care of their own problems. Everything that needs to be done takes effort.

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

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Luckily, my creative juices are pretty much on tap. If I'm compelled to do something, I can go for it and get it done.

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I come from a blue collar background.

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My lineage is partially Irish.

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My dad's side of the family were calm folk from England, but the other side just loved to party. Somewhere between those two factions is me.

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I think that the pivotal point of me in terms of the choral stuff is that I was involved in this provincial choir at 16 or 17. We went and played in churches and convention centres. The music we got to do was so inspiring for me.

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I love Strapping Young Lad. I'm incredibly proud of that band; I'm incredibly proud of everything we did.

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The reason Strapping Young Lad was such a good band was we were honest about what we were doing.

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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

What made Strapping Young Lad important, at least to me, was I was being honest about whatever was important to me at that time. In many ways, that musical process is there to resolve those issues, if you will.

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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.

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I like it when it rains; I like it when it snows. I like seasons. I like trees. I like mountains. I like rivers. And with that around me, I write.

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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.'

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I think that the world is full of really, really good musicians, but that's not necessarily my motivation for having people involved. It's more how they contribute to the scene as a person.

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I tend to find in my musical world people end up appearing, and I'm pretty good at being able to discern right away whether or not they are going to be appropriate based on their personality.

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While I was recording 'Ziltoid,' the movie 'Mars Attacks' came on TV, I think, six times in one week. So I don't know if there's any direct references or anything, but the aesthetics of that movie was definitely around while I was creating the music, so I'd be lying if I said it wasn't part of it.

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I'll be the first to admit when I'm influenced by something.

Devin Townsend