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.

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

Touring and putting out records is fun and cool, but I've been doing it for a long time.

I'd rather let the music speak for itself.

A lot of pop music is based on trying to make people remember it so that they'll buy it. To me, it was not about that.

When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk.

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