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

I think anytime that you go to the extreme of any mode of economics, be it capitalism or communism, you have these feedback mechanisms that make the system turn in on itself.

I'd rather let the music speak for itself.

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.

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

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

I'm not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days.