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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.

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I think music is a powerful medium because it co-inspires. It inspires the artist who then inspires the listener, and it's a back-and-forth process.

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You can say a lot more with a poem than you can with a song, but with a song you can really be more powerful with it. You can express it a lot more powerfully.

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If you're using live bass versus orchestral bass, you've got to make sure that you're not stepping on the toes of the other elements, so you've got to balance it out.

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

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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.

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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. That said though, I think also artists have, continuously good artists, have been good for their times.

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I think it's my interaction with journalists that has pegged me more as political than my actual records, although they have obviously political aspects to them as well.

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With 'Elect the Dead,' I learned how to make a rock record without a rock band and make the rock record I've always wanted to make.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: August 21st, 1967

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