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" I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician. "

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" I believe very firmly that indigenous populations had a really good, intuitive understanding of why we're here. And we're trying to gain that same understanding through psychology and intellect in modern civilization. "

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" Composing is what I love most from what I do. Each genre has a unique expression that you cannot supplant with another. All the records co-inspire each other though they are not tied conceptually in any way to another. "

" It's the idea of a multi-sensory experience stemming from music that opened my interest into painting, to be honest. "

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" I'd rather let the music speak for itself. "

" As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way. "

" I like having songs that go from the personal to the kind of inter-relational, universal, because everything comes back to micro/macro and everything's tied in. "

" 'Elect the Dead' is a rock record that takes you on a journey with different types of genres integrated, different lyrical themes digested, and many fun and colorful moments to enjoy. "

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" In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there. "

" When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk. "

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" With 'Elect the Dead,' I learned how to make a rock record without a rock band and make the rock record I've always wanted to make. "

" I think I might write a book. I like writing. People have asked me if I would get into politics, but I think I feel a lot more effective being a representative of truth through the arts. "

" With rock music, the amount of power that you can generate, the intensity behind the intentions of your lyrics that you can really reflect through rock music - you can't do that in jazz. You can't do that with classical. "