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As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.

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The best way to do that is to pick up a new instrument or an instrument that you don't typically write on and see where it takes you. Whether it's using an acoustic guitar, or piano, or electronics as tools, all of these lead to creating different types of songs and I used all of these methods for this record.

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Composing is what I love most from what I do. Each genre has a unique expression that you cannot supplant with another. All the records co-inspire each other though they are not tied conceptually in any way to another.

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People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'

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

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You listen to Bob Dylan and you can't help but think of the 60s, it's very relational and if artists are true artists and not just mere musicians they need to be truthful because the music doesn't come from them it comes from the universe and it's to be shared. At best, we're skilled presenters, and I say that at best.

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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.

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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.

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In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: August 21st, 1967

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