96 Quotes by Shavo Odadjian

So the universe is the sacred silence and sleep, and the kids are the disorder. So how do you control the disorder in that universe? You can't. To me, that's 'Toxicity.'

I always thought when I was 22 something bomb was gonna happen, then when I was 22, System started blowing up in like '96. Not blowing up really, but I started putting it into fruition. '96 is when people started noticing us, then '97 was when we got signed.

Glendale is such a mecca of our fans. They are the most important things. It's the fans and then music, then we come third or fourth.

I can't try to write a song - songs come out of me. I have to play the guitar and if I jam a song, boom! That's a song.

So, there's a lot of 22 in my life. That always followed me and has always been good to me. I also have a condition that is synesthesia, where you relate different senses with each other. So every time I think of numbers, since I was a kid, each number has had a color in my head.

I've been so hesitant to do anything else besides System because you know, when you do something grand and it's noticed so much, everything else you do is secondary.

The people who hate us, I don't think they are wrong. That's what they think, and I promote thought.

I didn't join a band and didn't get famous to stop playing music.

I would skate in the '80s. I started skating with Jordan 1s, and that was a big deal. I looked different, because no one was getting with Jordan 1s. That became my little thing. I grew up in Hollywood.