Quotes About Controversy

I am one of the most attacked persons.

People can't stand it when you deal with issues of race and class, and also sometimes the church, and you give a perspective that flushes out hypocrisy.

We played a gig and we had a song that was offensive to people of the Jewish persuasion, and we led off with it, and they were offended by it, and that was that.

Ultimately, I feel like there is just a pervasive evidence of God. Though I know that is maybe a controversial thing to say.

Call me a cockeyed pessimist, but I'm having trouble finding any good news in the trashing of Harriet Miers.

I heard that Jesus had a pet dinosaur. Evolution must be a myth then.

Much of America is petrified to bring up race, especially in public forums - the media, in particular.

Etta James takes credit for writing some of the lyrics on 'I'd Rather Go Blind,' which I think are some of the most phenomenal lyrics I've ever heard. There's arguments now about who wrote it, but she always takes credit for it in her live performances.

I don't really like Phil Robertson and I think his opinion about gay marriage is stupid. But in a country where we want an honest conversation, we have to realize that part of the honest conversation is hearing things we don't like and discussing them.

Many are asking what my credentials are and what I can do for the Philippines. They are telling me that they heard I am a womanizer. That is true. That is very true.

Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.

That's what Flyers fans are all about. My favorite thing about Philly fans is booing their own team.

Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.

I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there with my camera.

But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.

I mean, taking photographs is a very nasty thing to do. It's very cruel.

Like Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and so many others before me, sexual imagery has always been a part of my photography.

In the 1920s and 1930s, scientists from both the political left and right would not have found the idea of designer babies particularly dangerous - though, of course, they would not have used that phrase.

In abortion, the person who is massacred, physically and morally, is the woman.

Why couldn't Obama have picked somebody respectable as his running mate, you know, like John Kerry did?

As a member of Westboro Baptist Church, I became a fixture on picket lines across the country.

You can actually make your own Trump policies by going through the incinerator at the Daily Mail and picking through the dust for anything they thought might get them prosecuted.

It's almost not safe to be an artist, the way everybody is randomly picking people to feud with.

There is two different Donald Trumps. There is the Donald Trump of the '90s... Now you've got this other one. The post-dementia Donald Trump who just loves picking fights because, I think, he's a lonely man.