Serj Tankian

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

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.

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.

Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system.

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.

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

I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.

I like having songs that go from the personal to the kind of inter-relational, universal, because everything comes back to micro/macro and everything's tied in.

It's probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically.