~INTERVIEWS~
PHOBIA!
-from Metal Hammer (UK), Dec. 1997
Fear of heights? Won't touch dogs? Hate spiders like a proper scaredy cat? The Hammer braves all to find out who scared of what in the world of rock! DEVIN TOWNSEND of STRAPPING YOUNG LAD reveals all...
"Jewellery and pennies! Cos they're both ridiculously dirty. When I was a child I must have fallen into a big pile of my grandmother's dirty jewellery or something. I see it as covered in dirt and pus and gunk and navel shit. It gets in all those tiny crevices and shit, and if I touch it, the first thing I imagine is it being in my mouth and making me froth! The same with pennies; I imagine the number of hands they've passed through and it revolts me... Sorry bout that!"