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

With rock music, the amount of power that you can generate, the intensity behind the intentions of your lyrics that you can really reflect through rock music - you can't do that in jazz. You can't do that with classical.

With most of the songs and music that I've composed, irrespective of the myriad videos made, I was always careful not to overly define the experience, leaving room for people to internalize things for themselves, making their experience more integral.

The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth.

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.

Science has failed our mother Earth.

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.