I've never intended to be controversial, but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think if I'm controversial it's not because I set out to be. It's because I've never felt comfortable being part of someone else's mainstream community.
It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.
Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public.
I have never written out of a desire to be controversial.
Just because you say something doesn't make it controversial, and it doesn't make you a bad person.
I get called 'controversial' all the time.
Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.
The frustrating part of being tagged 'controversial' is people go looking for trouble where there isn't any to look for.
Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.
I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.