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" Life is that perfect fine line between ironies. "

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" 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. "

" I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art. "

" I am more interested in how people interpret the phrase 'Elect The Dead' than what I may or may not have intended. I named the album after the track, which is a spiritual song about love, life and death and is the heaviest song on the album without having any heavy instruments. "

" Touring and putting out records is fun and cool, but I've been doing it for a long time. "

" The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth. "

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" People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.' "

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" I've always worked on all different types of music, some with specific project goals and deadlines and some not. Sometimes I would write a piece of music that is almost like a film score or weird electro pieces, wherever the muse took me, and I still do that. "

" It's probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically. "

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" Corporatization is the descendant of industrialization. "

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