Devin Townsend

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. ”

I'm just a perpetually confused and terrified person that is trying to be less so all the time, and music is the byproduct of that. ”

Strapping Young Lad is a representation of me, just as much as 'Ki,' 'Ghost,' 'Ziltoid' or 'Infinity.' There's no difference; it was just a different period of time. ”

The reason why everything I do is so different is not because I'm trying to be provocative; it's simply a reflection of whatever was happening to me at the time I wrote that particular record. ”

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 as a result of that, I found that my writing was veering off in four - sometimes even more - directions. ”

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. ”

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. ”

As Devin, the person, I'm very different from my artistic self. ”

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. ”

I'm very creative - making music, making puppets, that's my thing - but mainstream success and the demands that brings? No, not really for me. ”