Devin Townsend Quotes

I try not to be overly analytical.

I love to be in the moment. I love to analyse things a bit.

It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities.

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

I'm not afraid to blame myself for any of my own faults or just to analyze things in a different way, but I don't overanalyze, either.

My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.

I'm kind of psychotic and I like to talk about things. I'm a Virgo, too, so I like to analyze and overprocess.

You externalise extreme emotions, and you look at them objectively and understand them from a different standpoint.

I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much deeper into my thoughts and memories than conversation does. Writing provides the solitude necessary to reflect on being in this world.

I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding.

I think I tend to live in sort of a meta state of existence where I'm always analyzing and analyzing whatever I'm going through at any given moment, and a lot of times I'll reflect back on and go, 'Oh look at that - if I acted this way when that happened, I might not have thought of that that way.'

Don't believe everything you think - or feel.

When a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune: so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

The one thing I've tried to do is be insightful.

I've always been pretty in touch with what I'm feeling.

Try to understand why it is happening, from where it is coming, where the roots are, how it happens, how it functions, how it overpowers you, how in anger you become mad. Anger has happened before, it is happening now, but now add a new element to it, the element of understanding -- and then the quality will change. Then, by and by, you will see that the more you understand anger, the less it happens. And when you understand it perfectly, it disappears. Understanding is like heat. When the heat comes to a particular point -- one hundred degrees -- the water disappears.

I've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out.

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

I tend to process emotional stuff very, very slowly.

I'm very sane about how crazy I am.

Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.

The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.

I am a very deep person. I run very deep in real life.

I'm going to fight the force of emotions by that of intellect