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We've never been a religious band, but the media wants us to be.

I don't believe in censorship in any form.

A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there.

I try not to censor myself at all.

There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have some secret message. We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. It's simply about life experience.

We can self-censor ourselves for various reasons, but we can't live in a world where some person or some group decides what's offensive and what's not.

Censors are energetic and righteous people but they just couldn't work a room like Abbe Lane.

Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some will read with empathy and curiosity while others will take offense.

We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way.