I think as consumers Europeans are a lot more artist loyal irrespective of the genre of music or the type of project or the collaborative effort, and Americans are more media-loyal, because they need to be fed that media to know what's going on, because we're so inundated with promotion and marketing and everything that's going on - advertising.

Political statements are usually more direct, and it works with the upbeat music as well, for some reason, the directness of your statements.

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

Corporatization is the descendant of industrialization.

People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.

We [americans] self-regulate ourselves, we self-censor ourselves a lot in this country instead of having someone else censor us so we can blame them. That's not good, either.

I'd rather let the music speak for itself.