Paul F. Tompkins Quotes

My lyrics aren't offensive. Some people find everything offensive.

I've never thought of it consciously... I say exactly what I think, and very often it's totally politically incorrect. I get, always, chastised for it. So it's not shtick. But I think I'm the one who says, 'The emperor has no clothes.'

I can be stupid in my lyrics or say whatever I want without having to worry about anybody else's feeling or anybody being embarrassed by it or anything like that.

It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.

I'm free. I'm free to say what I feel.

I thought if I could create a convincing cat I could say and do anything I wanted on the human condition.

With rap, it's a funny thing. You can say things, and people can take 'em the way they wanna take 'em.

I'm using my art to comment on what I see. You don't have to agree with it.

I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say with my art.

Obviously I don't want to make a film that offends people, but the whole world is so politically correct - I'm not going to not do something because it may be politically incorrect. At some point, the metaphors and allegories break down. They disappear, and you just have science fiction.

A bunch of comedians have gotten in 'trouble' for sharing their views. When an actor or an artist or might come out saying something political or whatever, then it becomes about that view.

I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn't say in real life.

Occasionally, Donald Trump says something that is politically incorrect but which also happens to be true.

I think when you're in my position as an artist, I can say what I want and talk about the issues that matter.

I can't allow myself to censor myself.

I've said jokes where I thought people might get up and hit me for this. A couple of people have thought about it. But they didn't. It gives you a lot of power, because if you're on shows where people are worried about getting sacked and you're not, then you're transcendent because you say what other people would like to say.

I'm well-known for saying unsayable things.

I'm an artist, and an artist doesn't worry about being politically correct when I write.

Those of us who work in the arts know that depiction is not endorsement. If it was, no artist would be able to paint inhumane practices, no author could write about them, and no filmmaker could delve into the thorny subjects of our time.

Art has an obligation to offend

One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.

The classic comedian says there's nothing that's taboo; if you laugh at one thing you've got to laugh at everything, that comedy is taking people to dark areas and showing them the light.

I kind of think that artists throughout history, poets throughout history have been criticized for sharing what's on people's minds and I don't think it's any different now.

This is America. We're allowed to draw whatever we want.

What is one man's hate speech is another man's poetry.