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I like the idea that my audience doesn't see what I do as controversial.

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.

Whatever I do becomes controversial.

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.

I'm always told that what I say is controversial. Why is it controversial? Because I speak from a tradition that has now fallen out of favor with the dominant media in this country. And so when I say things like marriage should be between one man and one woman, I'm called a bigot.

I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.

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 always thought, 'I could go the route of saying some controversial things and have it explode, just do it like that. But I don't do that.' But of course, it wasn't really up to me.