Devin Townsend Quotes

I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can understand my strengths, my weaknesses - I can see where I need to step up a bit.

Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from.

We have to have a very clear understanding of ourselves.

We can't see ourselves very clearly. This I learned as a songwriter. I'm forever trying to figure out what my own truth is.

My personality doesn't interest me.

Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

One of the reasons I'm an interesting person to be married to is my intensely late-blooming self-awareness.

I think a lot of Magnum was me.

Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.

I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.

Writing a book about yourself is like therapy, and you go 'Oh My God, that's the reason that happened.' Writing about it, you're forced to really examine things.

One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.

For a memoir to really succeed, the author has to do such hard work before they come to the page. They have to do a brutal self-examination of everything they believe to be true.

I think it's healthy to gain a perspective on who you are deep down, question yourself, and challenge yourself; it's important to do that.

My view is that you have to deal with who you are. It's hard work, in a way, but somebody has to do it.

I try and put myself in other peoples eyes, as I dont feel I've got anything new to say about myself at 23.

I have taken a good look at myself loads of times.

I enjoy exploring and finding myself.

In order to see truly where I am and where I want to go, I need to remember where I once was.

'Xen,' to me, was a necessary excursion inward, into myself. 'Mutant' is a response to it and is more extroverted.

Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.

When I look in the mirror, I see an ever-unfolding process.