I've never intended to be controversial, but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.
I'd be very controversial if I said why, and I don't do controversial anymore. That's too passé. So last year. Being controversial is boring now.
Ninety-eight percent of the things that come out of my mouth are intended to be harmless or even charming. They're not ever intended to be offensive or controversial.
I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.
I've never tried to be controversial. The truth is controversial enough.
I love pop, but with an edge so that's what I'd say my music is. And quite controversial.
All I've wanted to be is someone people look up to. It's funny - everyone says I'm controversial. I've never worked out what it is about me that's controversial. I've never had a DUI; I've never been in a brawl; you've never seen photos of me walking out of clubs at 5 A.M.
Evolution is not controversial in the field of science. It's controversial in the public sphere because public education is highly politicized.
I've always been called "controversial." I think if I were not controversial I wouldn't be doing my job.
I was always controversial, being gay, so nothing was more controversial than that.
Controversial issues are always more interesting but I don't create material about a subject I have opinion on just because it's controversial. The most fun is having a point of view that the audience is generally against and presenting an argument that challenges their thinking.
We knew that 'Naked Attraction' was going to be controversial but as long as youre being controversial for the right reasons, I have absolutely no problem with it.
Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.
Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.
Sense data are much more controversial than qualia, because they are associated with a controversial theory of perception - that one perceives the world by perceiving one's sense-data, or something like that.
I'm not going to back down from my controversial positions. If I were to do that, my base would be gone. And so my strategy is just, continue to speak the truth, even if it is controversial.