Here’s an interview we couldn’t wait to share with you! We love Devin Townsend first of all for his genius music but also because of his unique, sometimes (a little) crazy and unusual personality. His personality is a breath of fresh air in a conformed and coded industry. What we really love is that this interview represents everything that we love in what we do: a man who is able to talk about himself without any restraint and who is open to self mockery. He is a man who tends to question himself and yet would rather he didn’t have to. He is an incredible human being. In fact he is so human that next to him other men come across as monsters. It is often believed that genius intelligence emanates from supermen, however, it could also be said that the genius in a man comes from his total acceptance of his own nature, through his beauty and through his ugliness. After all, that makes sense; you need to be profoundly human in order to reveal human emotions.

Anyway, here is an interview which can be read again and again in which we learn a lot about Devin Townsend, the man as well as the artist, and you might even learn a little about yourselves. Although he is excited and never stops speaking until he loses the thread of his story, he never loses any coherence in his words. We get the sense that these last few years have been quite intensely creative. The tetralogy genesis of Devin Townsend Project – Ki, Addicted, Deconstruction and Ghost – appears to have been almost like a traumatic experience. Yet a positive trauma because it enabled him to level with himself, in order to understand what is important about himself and about his way of dealing with life.

Enjoy.

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