To be a little divisive is kind of hot.
I like to be provocative.
My very first news director said to me that it's better to be hated than to have viewers be neutral.
I decided to make one of the most controversial songs that I could. I want to get under people's skin.
I think, as long as people have a strong opinion, whether they love or hate us, I think we're doing something right.
I'm a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.
If you're not controversial, you'll never break through the din of all the commentary.
I don't think I ever intend to provoke outrage, but I don't mind being provocative in content.
It's fun to be the guy that can be so polarising and have that effect on so many different people.
I seem to always inspire a strong reaction one way or the other.
I have learned that nothing gets readers so fired up as saying something everyone knows is true.
I think some people enjoy that I say things that upset or shake up people.
I never thought of myself as a particularly controversial figure.
Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
I naturally want to be provocative.
I think if you're not offending somebody somewhere, then your show is probably just very bland and boring.
I prefer to make a film that people have a really intense reaction to than have a film that people feel ambivalent about.
The amusing thing about 'X-Force' is that it was highly rated - and hated - in about equal measure, Which suited me just fine. If no-one's feathers were a little ruffled, we probably wouldn't have been doing our jobs right.
