Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.

— Serj Tankian

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

— Serj Tankian

Day is just a collection of hours.

— Serj Tankian

I am more interested in how people interpret the phrase 'Elect The Dead' than what I may or may not have intended. I named the album after the track, which is a spiritual song about love, life and death and is the heaviest song on the album without having any heavy instruments.

— Serj Tankian

I'd rather let the music speak for itself.

— Serj Tankian

If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will eat all the smaller fish and own everything, and then you'll have zero capitalism, zero competition - it would just be one giant company.

— Serj Tankian

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

— Serj Tankian

I think music has the ability to inspire people and to change hearts, and the heart has the power to change the mind, and the mind has the power to change the world.

— 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.

— Serj Tankian

People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.

— Serj Tankian