Devin Townsend Quotes

I had no idea I was gonna be a songwriter, because I was too young to know my own evolution. I started playing the violin as a way to express myself because I didn't have a lot of vocabulary when I was 14.

I've always been in my own world, even as a young girl. But I fell in love with music because it made me feel something that I can't explain.

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

I don't enjoy hearing the sound of my voice. The most important things for me are impossible to articulate extemporaneously.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve; I write about them.

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.

The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.

There was probably something as a child I wanted to express, something unsaid that I needed to share.

It was a really strange way that I came into music. Once I gave voice to it, the pit of emotions that I guess I knew was inside of me for a long time, the stream never really stopped.

In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.

I love diving into different skins, skins that make me feel deep emotions.

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

As an actor, I'm allowed - encouraged! - to explore emotions that have been basically unacceptable in my life. I have a huge well of emotional stuff, and once I give myself permission as an actor, it all comes to the surface. But I'll be damned if I can give myself permission to bring it out as a man.

I want people to feel the times where they don't feel good. You should dive into those emotions, because that's what I do with my music.

Acting, I get to explore other people and other characters; with music, I get to express and explore myself.

I make my music to express everything I feel is necessary to communicate at a given time. Through music, I can express myself with statements that are more nuanced and more contradictory than factual details.

I was bookish and awkward and wanted a means of expressing the millions of emotions flying around inside me. The piano seemed as good an outlet as any.

The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being.

I'm not the best at expressing my feelings other than in songs or on paper.

I express myself through song when I can't let people in on my thoughts otherwise. I need the creative process.

I do not want to have feelings that are just for me that I cannot express to other people. That frustrates me.

I think there's something very valid about having feelings that you can't articulate. I don't think you should shut those feelings out, but I also want to be able to communicate them.

I know definitive points in my life and in relationships because of my songs. I write my music so that I'll never be bored of it.

There are so many tender and holy emotions flying about in our inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body of an outward act; so many rich and lovely flowers spring up which bear no seed, that it is a happiness poetry was invented, which receives into its limbs all these incorporeal spirits, and the perfume of all these flowers.