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Every song I’ve written is luck, I think; it’s luck – ‘How did that just happen?’
I like structuring verses, choruses, but sometimes the verses might be a tango and the choruses might be death metal.
A lot of times, I don’t feel responsible for the songs myself. But that’s my job or my place in life: to keep my search and catch the ideas before they pass me by.
Music is an emotion, and I put it out there.
You can’t just release double albums and expect people to sit there and devote their time to it.
I just think religion is something… It could be a beautiful thing for the individual, but when it becomes organized, that’s when religion starts taking a kind of ugly turn to me.
I would never cancel a tour unless I had real reasons and personal things that require my undivided attention.
I was always searching for something bigger, faster and better, and Slayer came up with that.
System of a Down is the music that I wanted to buy but couldn’t find at the store. It’s the band I wanted to be a fan of.
I guess you’d say I’m a gearhead. It’s not just guitars; I have five or six drum sets, a bunch of keyboards… It’s like Guitar Center exploded, and all the cool stuff dropped in my backyard. I’m a really lucky guy, I have to admit.
I’ll be honest with you: politically, I have no issue with people, but my beef sometimes is with religion at the end of the day.
I am depressed sometimes, but it’s not what keeps me at home or focused on work.
Music is pretty much all I do.
If I was money-motivated, I wouldn’t have joined a rock band with three other Armenian guys.
In Glendale, where I live, there’s a street called Broadway. The bottoms of the light posts have swastikas on them.
You put too many songs on your record, and it ends up like a family with too many kids: some of them get neglected.
I always want to grow and top myself.
There’s no rule that says you have to make records constantly, like clockwork, to continue being who you are.
In ‘Kill Rock n’ Roll,’ the choruses came about at the moment I was listening to a lot of the Supremes, and if you listen to that part, you can hear a melody and a harmony there that’s not too far away from what the Supremes would probably be doing, but there’s heavy guitars in the back.
