Продолжение"I don't understand why we have to be just one thing. If I write on one side of this lampshade, "The metropolis is too dense. It causes fear," that's a social statement. And on this side I write, "Blow me." And then here it says, "I'm hungry." And here it says, "Gee, what a splendid day." Now, those are four different things. We're all just turning the lampshade. Should I see the whole thing as political because the first statement was political?"
"Because since I was a child, music runs through my head - and sometimes it's my worst enemy. It keeps me awake. It loops."
"You can't think of everything. I mean, when you take a shit, do you think about how the shit's gonna come out?"
"We are living in a world of guided missiles and misguided men."
"I bought this little nose flute...I don't really know how to use it, I just like making weird sounds with it on my face."
"Well 'bag and toss' isn't very advisable anymore, due to legal liabilities, so you really just have to hang in there, most of the time, If you do hit a car with a bag of poo, they might get really angry, or it could cause an aaccident. When tossing your poo, we say, 'Safety First!'"
"I bought this little nose flute in Mesa, Arizona; it's like a little plastic mouth flute that you put on your nose. I don't really know how to use it, I just like making weird sounds with my face."
"I'm an avidian stoner, I'm actually a part time marijuana smoker."
"Get some of the boys in the Pentagon to smoke and maybe we can kill less people in the world today."
"Vote for Nader, he's the only one that cares."
"Rock and roll? I don't know what that is!"
"It doesn't matter what we think are songs are about or what we think at all. It's all on you!"
"There will always be people who don't care what you sing, who don't care what goes on as long as the like the music."
"Humans have been on the earth for millions of years, yet we don?t believe man began thinking until he started building walls. And what good have these walls ever done us?"
"Preach to The Cheep!"
"I have just some type of a voice. But we all have a voice; we each have different listeners."
"We just write about our experiences and the fact that we're not a political band, we're not a sexist band we're not an anything band."
"If 10% of the people of this world want peace today, I swear to you there would be peace today. Today, I mean right now. It's that simple."
"Art makes me feel good,Creation makes me feel good. Peace makes me feel good, Happiness makes me feel good. Interaction makes me feel good."
"I jacked cracked dealer on El Verado Street with a Honda Accord. And then I dumped the Honda Accord in the LA river, which is about this high, and then here I am I playing guitar for System of a Down a year later!"
"The closest thing to nature is my bag of pot."
"Serart means Serj and Arto first of all. And ser means love in Armenian. It?s like the love of art and also can be the art of loving."
"We are heading toward a self-proclaimed environment of injustice, disease, and death."
"Perception is a vision, isn't it?"
"I'd like to invent a scale that you can put in the toilet to weigh your crap. Men are so proud of a good shit, how great would it be to know how much that shit weighed? Imagine the pride, the competition."
"A lot of the vocals have these almost tribal truths that can be understood by any language or tradition or culture."
"When is Taco Bell going to start packaging diapers with their food?"
"The emancipation of birth from the womb is the most exciting and auspicious event in my life."
"Names,labels,words don't mean shit. They can never profess to the world of a whirlwind of emotions that any thought can bring on. Language itself is a left-brain technology."
"Yes, I am aware of the differences between System and other bands, but they make no difference to me."
"I'm walking alone and looking in front of me. Unless someone honks, I don't look to the other side or behind me. Why would I care?"