Quotes from Shavo Odadjian

I'm not a solo artist. I love to collaborate.

Chop Suey!' was really heavy, but it had a lot of melodic parts. It was fast and frenzy.

I like to make music and anytime I come up with something good, I'll record it as a video on my phone.

When I listen to a band like Pink Floyd, I don't know the names of the individual songs, I know the full albums. That's what we want for our albums.

I believe a band has to evolve rather than making the same album over and over again, because if you do, sooner or later people are going to get tired of you.

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.

It's not unpatriotic to have feelings and beliefs that don't go with the President - with his feelings and beliefs.

We had labels offering us deals the first year we formed - 1995 - but we were afraid of them going, 'Let's change this and that.' We had labels telling us to get rid of our singer. I look back sometimes and go, 'Imagine if we had done that-what a shame it would have been?'

People see citizens who are anti-war anti-American or anti-patriotic and that's so wrong.

I want to put my harshness into rap videos and create a new style.

When I was a kid, I used to make skateboarding videos, and I would pretend to be in a band and make rock videos that I'd edit with two VCRs.

I have a lot of ideas for videos, and I want to pursue directing. This is one of the goals I have always had.

I don't like videos that explain the song. I like it to be kind of abstract, like a painting.

There was a time in my life when I drank. I wasn't the best me when I was a drinker.

I started a project with the RZA back in '09 called Achozen, but we never actually dropped that.

I listen to a lot of Eighties hip-hop. I listened to a lot of Ice-T.