Shavo Odadjian

Well here's how I look at it, I've always been someone that's liked to have things on my plate, it just keeps…

— Shavo Odadjian

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

— Shavo Odadjian

There's nothing anti-patriotic about wanting peace. There really isn't.

— Shavo Odadjian

Glendale is such a mecca of our fans. They are the most important things. It's the fans and then music, then we…

— Shavo Odadjian

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

— Shavo Odadjian

I don't want every member of System to have their own label. It will be like a circus.

— Shavo Odadjian

We're a band that keeps writing and recording - we don't know when it's over.

— Shavo Odadjian

A band is a real band if they can play not just their songs, but they can just play.

— Shavo Odadjian

I did Achozen with RZA and that was straight hip-hop.

— Shavo Odadjian

Oh, I know the Kardashians quite well.

— Shavo Odadjian

I never wanted to be in a heavy-metal band.

— Shavo Odadjian

The people who hate us, I don't think they are wrong. That's what they think, and I promote thought.

— Shavo Odadjian

There's a lot of bands that don't release an album every year. There's a lot of bands that take three, four or…

— Shavo Odadjian

When I listen to a band like Pink Floyd, I don't know the names of the individual songs, I know the full…

— Shavo Odadjian

People either hate us or love us.

— Shavo Odadjian

To me, punk rock isn't a style of music, it's something you live.

— Shavo Odadjian

So the universe is the sacred silence and sleep, and the kids are the disorder. So how do you control the disorder…

— Shavo Odadjian

We didn't just make Achozen's music to sell it.

— Shavo Odadjian

When I was a kid, I used to make skateboarding videos, and I would pretend to be in a band and make…

— Shavo Odadjian

If I plan to write, I won't be able to write anything good. I just need to kind of jam and let…

— Shavo Odadjian

Man, George Clinton taught me some serious lessons! For a couple of years we were hanging out almost every other day. He'd…

— Shavo Odadjian

Rock's not dead.

— Shavo Odadjian

We don't want to name our songs after the choruses, so we sometimes come up with random titles. We don't care if…

— Shavo Odadjian

When you open for a band, you don't play one of their songs. You just don't do that.

— Shavo Odadjian

I would never want to put my name on a crappy thing. So, everything that has my name on it is pretty…

— Shavo Odadjian