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.

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.

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

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

I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.

Science has failed our mother Earth.

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.