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  • Daron Malakian"I have no interest in murder, and I have no interest in people dying, ... But I'm interested in people's minds, and sometimes Manson puts thoughts together that I find really interesting. Have you ever seen his unedited videos? He starts making a lot of sense. I'm sure people are scared of that, but to me, it's scarier to watch George Bush try to make sense."
  • "I could name so many more of our songs that aren't about politics than ones that are. And for a long time, everyone thought Serj wrote all of our tunes. Until this album came out, people thought he wrote all the lyrics. So there are so many different misunderstandings of System of a Down that I don't even let it bother me anymore. I'm just kind of used to it. Our first bio said something like 'four guys based out of LA who are Armenian and political,' and, well, it wasn't really right at all. I mean, we are all Armenian, but we didn't plan that."
  • "Back in the day, when the emperor or the king or whatever waged war, they went to war, too. But that's been lost in time."
  • "We don't belong to any one scene."
  • "What we do is just all over. What [Serj Tankian] is playing on the keyboard sounds like the Main Street Electrical Parade. I like it because we have never done anything like that before."
  • "I played for about two seconds in the game. No one knew who I was. They were looking at me like, 'Who is this guy?' But I don't think that Frankie Avalon is the biggest System of a Down fan."
  • "As a writer I kind of go crazy. I even had, like, at least 20 or 30 more songs to bring into the band. But we had to stop and get into the studio at some point."
  • "It's important not to take yourself too seriously."
  • "Politics, for me, is a reflection of the world I live in."
  • "But love is just as important as politics to me. They both exist in the world, you know? And if you don't reflect the entire world around you, then you're leaving something out."
  • "I just wrote the song sitting in my car waiting for my girlfriend. That's about it, man. You will know what I mean when you hear the song."
  • "We wanted to make a record that was a success beyond where we were at. All of my favorite bands evolved, and I really wanted our band to evolve."
  • "It's an instrumental. You know how anal I am about that word. [I hate] when people call classical music 'songs.' They are not songs. You've got to sing for a song. Music is instrumentals. It's important to me. It's not a jam either, because jams are improvised."