If I was money-motivated, I wouldn't have joined a rock band with three other Armenian guys.
People's attention spans don't run too long these days.
There's no rule that says you have to make records constantly, like clockwork, to continue being who you are.
I guess you'd say I'm a gearhead. It's not just guitars; I have five or six drum sets, a bunch of keyboards... It's like Guitar Center exploded, and all the cool stuff dropped in my backyard. I'm a really lucky guy, I have to admit.
As a musician, I don't think I'm the greatest guitar player. I'm a bigger fan of the drums than I am the guitar; I just happen to play guitar. I play drums almost every day at my house. I wrote a lot of songs behind the drum kit, just having the music and vocals in my head and playing the rhythm.
In the Middle East in the summertime, to keep cool, a lot of people sleep on the rooftops.
I like structuring verses, choruses, but sometimes the verses might be a tango and the choruses might be death metal.
