the saz<\/b><\/a>. Are you a guy who likes to build a record around one sound?<\/b> The album closes with \u201cThe Weight,\u201d which is set on a college campus. You graduated from Columbia almost exactly 20 years ago in May 2006. John McCain was a commencement speaker, and he defended the Iraq war.<\/b>
Now you\u2019ve got a record to some degree about your Iranian heritage in the midst of a war with Iran.<\/b>
Speak on it.<\/b>
The gift of songwriting is ambiguity?<\/b>
Nevertheless, the first verse of \u201cThe Weight\u201d talks about a commencement on a rainy day. If my internet research is correct, it was raining on your 2006 graduation.<\/b>
You get a little tetchy when it comes to laying out the meanings.<\/b>
Let me hit you with an influence that I picked up on this record: Coldplay\u2019s \u201cViva La Vida.\u201d<\/b>Silence<\/i>]<\/p>\n
The album, not the song.<\/b>
An insane answer to my question.<\/b>
You\u2019ve lived for the last stretch in L.A., but you\u2019ve more recently been spending time in New York. Is \u201cAmerican Stories\u201d a product of Los Angeles or of New York City?<\/b>
Is L.A. or New York a better music town? You have to choose \u2014 there\u2019s no squirreling out of it.<\/b>
You kind of squirreled out of it.<\/b>\n
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Rostam in Los Angeles in 2021.<\/p>\n
(Carolyn Cole \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n
Your mom is a well-known scholar of Persian food. What\u2019s the best thing you can cook?<\/b>
The first photo that comes up on Google when somebody searches up Rostam \u2014<\/b>
It\u2019s a portrait from <\/b>an L.A. Times profile<\/b><\/a> that I wrote in 2021. You\u2019re wearing a Metallica \u201cAnd Justice for All\u201d T-shirt. If you knew then what you know now \u2014 that that would be the picture that people find of you \u2014 do you stand by Metallica \u201cAnd Justice for All\u201d?<\/b> You get deep into the philosophy of Metallica.<\/b>
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