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" I was always searching for something bigger, faster and better, and Slayer came up with that. "

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" As a musician, I don't think I'm the greatest guitar player. I'm a bigger fan of the drums than I am the guitar; I just happen to play guitar. I play drums almost every day at my house. I wrote a lot of songs behind the drum kit, just having the music and vocals in my head and playing the rhythm. "

" Music is pretty much all I do. "

" How does a band like System of a Down get big? "

" Every song I've written is luck, I think; it's luck - 'How did that just happen?' "

" I would never cancel a tour unless I had real reasons and personal things that require my undivided attention. "

" I am depressed sometimes, but it's not what keeps me at home or focused on work. "

" In Glendale, where I live, there's a street called Broadway. The bottoms of the light posts have swastikas on them. "

" My dad is my biggest influence on me as a musician, even though he's not a musician. "

" I don't understand some of the music I hear on MTV or the radio, because they don't mention the times we live in. They have nothing to do with nothing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In the Middle East in the summertime, to keep cool, a lot of people sleep on the rooftops. "

" 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. "

" Music is an emotion, and I put it out there. "

" I don't think when I'm doing music. Things just happen. I've even taken my clothes off while performing. But then I'm so shy that I can't even take my clothes off in the dressing room, even though it's just the other guys in the band in here with me. It's really weird. "

" Politicians use religion, and they get their troops riled up with religion. "

" Whatever I write has to evolve around my taste in music at that moment, because that always changes. "

" I don't get it when people complain that baseball games are too long. "

" I ain't got no beef with Obama. "

" I'm not very happy. I'm frustrated with human beings. I'm the guy who just wants to smack people in the face and say, 'Wake up!' "

" 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. "

" If I was money-motivated, I wouldn't have joined a rock band with three other Armenian guys. "

" I like structuring verses, choruses, but sometimes the verses might be a tango and the choruses might be death metal. "