Devin Townsend

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. ”

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 sounding like they're screaming or whatever. ”

I've always loved the sound of female vocals. ”

I don't deal with conflict well, so sometimes things will happen that will make me feel sort of powerless. But instead of being able to actually deal with the problem, I just suck it up - that's the way I was raised. Music, then, becomes my one avenue for letting things go, and when I get the chance, I let it rip. It's like therapy in that way. ”

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. ”

People talk about the Ozzfest and what it can do for your career, and I guess I'm just oblivious to it. ”

If you're making music strictly to make money, you might as well find another job. ”

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 place. ”

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. ”

I think that, as well as Strapping Young Lad kind of having the name for themselves based on brutality and aggression, I think there's also something to be said to the fact that every Strapping record is different. They're all different. ”