145 Quotes by Serj Tankian

My two interests are spirituality and politics. I would mesh them in some way; maybe try to figure out the politics of spirituality, or the spirituality of politics. Or maybe come up with this really crazy naive solution for the end of civilization.

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.

I don't want to spend all my time working as an activist. I don't get satisfaction out of it. I'd rather be doing something else. I'm a musician.

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.

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.

I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.

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

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

It's the idea of a multi-sensory experience stemming from music that opened my interest into painting, to be honest.