The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985.

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

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

I've got my own studio, and I've got four- to five-hundred unreleased tracks. I've got stuff that's electronic, orchestral, jazz, I've got rock, I've got metal, you know, I don't have polka.

Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.

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