I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.

A lot of pop music is based on trying to make people remember it so that they'll buy it. To me, it was not about that.

Science has failed our mother Earth.

I don't want to spend all my time working as an activist. I don't get satisfaction out of it. I'd rather be doing something else. I'm a musician.

I really feel like civilisation's already over. It's not ending but it's already done. We're all addicted to the concept that humanity equals civilisation and that's not the case. We need a global conversation to be able to decipher how we can live from this point forward. We have to redefine our relationship with our environment.

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

Harout Pamboukjian is one of the biggest Armenian folk singers in the world. In the '70s, he was making these records that were really Zeppelin-influenced.