I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
On my albums, it's as though the parental advisory is built in.
Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong.
Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.
I am seriously opposed to censorship of any sort.
Our censorship has sort of gotten a little too far. Too much censorship is just as bad as having none at all. Children need to be exposed to things, because if they don't see it, eventually, it's not like it's not going to happen, but it's just that there needs to be a balance.
When people start yammering about artistic responsibility, artists become wary. The subtext of such talk is that the arts need to be regulated, which is to say censored.
I don't for one second think about the possibility of censorship when I am writing a new book. I know I am a person who cares about kids and who cares about truth and I am guided by my own instincts, and trust them.
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.
These are all voluntary resources which help parents sort out the choices without infringing on the artists' rights to free speech, which is something that we respect.