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Human beings are gross.
My lineage is partially Irish.
I come from a blue collar background.
The music industry is really difficult.
I have no interest in being told what to do.
I've always loved the sound of female vocals.
The thing is, I'm equally disgusted by both men and women.
I'll be the first to admit when I'm influenced by something.
The best way of me not doing things is to demand it from me.
As a drummer, I'm rhythmically so disabled that it's hilarious.
I have, like, three or four friends and am a very private person.
I'm good at what I do but, to be honest, not a whole hell of a lot else!
I play keyboards and Pro Tools, if you want to look at it as an instrument.
I don't think anything that I have done has been forced by commerce exclusively.
If you're making music strictly to make money, you might as well find another job.
Soberity makes me write dull songs about reorganizing the knick knacks in my house.
I really like the art of music, the way that you can express yourself through music.
I've been a workaholic for many years, but at the same time, I do it because I love it.
Enya was a huge deal for me. That kind of woman vocals and how wide those productions were.
For me, the opportunity to express myself in this way is something I don't take for granted.
If you think meet-and-greets are fundamentally stupid, then you're never not gonna think that.
For me, the one thing I've got going for me in terms of my attributes as a musician is vision.
The reason Strapping Young Lad was such a good band was we were honest about what we were doing.
I've always been into easy music. When I was 15, the record for me was 'Hysteria' by Def Leppard.
Music is so important to me that that's got to be the only way I can do it. In the purest possible way.
I just go where it feels the most honest to go; then I deal with people thinking it's weird afterwards.
People talk about the Ozzfest and what it can do for your career, and I guess I'm just oblivious to it.
I love Strapping Young Lad. I'm incredibly proud of that band; I'm incredibly proud of everything we did.
As a vocalist, I can scream, and I've got a really good singing voice, but I can't do the really heavy vocals.
Luckily, my creative juices are pretty much on tap. If I'm compelled to do something, I can go for it and get it done.
As someone whose music is connected to his personal growth, I feel an obligation to follow this muse wherever it leads.
I have a job - it's a great job, and I love doing it - but I can't not work. That's not psychological; that's practical.
I really like female singers; I've got zero interest in working with male singers. Any male voice I need to do, I can do.
I think that when I got to a certain age, it was important to me to sort of analyze my relationship with myself and my past.
I'm just a perpetually confused and terrified person that is trying to be less so all the time, and music is the byproduct of that.
I think that religion is incredibly cruel, and I think that my biggest problem with being vegetarian, usually, is other vegetarians.
I have a real hard time with inter-personal relationships. I find it really taxing. Especially, like, friendships and being in bands.
My dad's side of the family were calm folk from England, but the other side just loved to party. Somewhere between those two factions is me.
'Deconstruction' is a really heavy record, a real symphony in a lot of ways, but with heavy musicians from the metal world - friends of mine.
I'm very creative - making music, making puppets, that's my thing - but mainstream success and the demands that brings? No, not really for me.
Essentially, 'Z2' ended up feeling the way that it should, but it was through a considerable amount of trial and error that it took to get there.
I like it when it rains; I like it when it snows. I like seasons. I like trees. I like mountains. I like rivers. And with that around me, I write.
It's like... to make a good record - I don't care who you are - it takes a long time and a lot of passion and a lot of attention to detail, right?
I think when music, specifically heavy music, the motivation for it is other than truly feeling it, that's when it becomes really difficult for me.
For me, music is about expressing the inexpressible, and as I get older, man, what I feel the need to express becomes less and less poignant to others.
Strapping Young Lad is a representation of me, just as much as 'Ki,' 'Ghost,' 'Ziltoid' or 'Infinity.' There's no difference; it was just a different period of time.
I've been making music for so long, and the main hurdles I've run when dealing with any public exposure is that many of my projects are so different from each other.
With 'Epicloud,' I wanted something catchy as the flu but with a sentiment that is romantic, positive, and beautiful. Spiritual without religion and set to heavy music.
For me, music is a byproduct of this process - the human process - and the fact that I've managed to eke out a career with it is a happy accident more than any strategy.
I'm doing this record called 'Epicloud.' Over the course of the full record, there's sort of new agey stuff, jazzy stuff, really heavy stuff. We basically cover the gamut.