Devin Townsend Quotes

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.

Whatever happens in my life, whether I stand up or I fall down, whatever the case, I'm going to use it in my art. Why? Because I'm an artist and I have to.

We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves.

Joanne' is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

As an artist, you keep learning. You draw out different parts of you.

My only incentive is to write music that changes me, where the process of making it is a discovery and is true in some way, at that moment.

I feel like, for me as an artist, it takes me a while of living with the tracks and living with the body of work to realize what it's all about.

We're all inspired by what has come before us, but hope to use the inspiration to create our own. That's the artist's journey. It's a pretty amazing path.

Everything I make starts very personally.

Through my films I'm eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there, but I'm slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I'm 85, I'll look back and say, 'All right, that about sums it up.'

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

I had a lot of songs and words and scenes stuck inside of me. So Jacknife encouraged me to bring them all out. So, in essence, 'You and Others' is my diary.

After touring with David Bowie last year, I was inspired to look at what I wanted to do as an artist, and I realized I wanted to go back to the music I fell in love with when I was eight years old.

I think it's natural for an artist to explore as they evolve.

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.

It's a great challenge and a wonderful journey how to figure out how to be an artist and to carve my way.

Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that's the same for every writer. Every artist has a moment of awakening, of happening upon an idea that grabs hold of you, regardless of whether you are a painter or a writer.

I genuinely find the most meaningful thing I do is to make music, but also to absorb some sort of creativity.

I don't want real life necessarily to be seen only as a context to heighten the deepness my work.

When I first started making music, I didn't really know what I was doing. I just wanted to write songs. I didn't have a concept. I didn't think it through. I was just flailing around doing what comes naturally. It took me a really long time to step back and deal with what I was doing with any kind of perspective or self-awareness.