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.

I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.

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.

I've always tried to listen to a lot of different music from around the world.

I think that the memory of Armenia's genocide opened my eyes at an early age to the existence of political cynicism.

In America, there's more of the question, should music be political or should it just be for entertainment purposes, whereas around the world that's not even an issue. I think people just assume that music should be everything.

As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing.