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Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that I've done.

For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.

Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me.

I don't think anyone doubts my motives, really. I do what I do and it's not very complicated. Of course, you might hate the music that I make, but I don't think people feel threatened by me just getting on with what I'm up to.

People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.

I think it's easy to make impenetrable music that nobody can get, and you can hide behind that sometimes.

If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.

It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good at the political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa.

So long as you do it truthfully, music is not to be judged.