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I haven't written too many political lyrics. Nor have I written any pro-Canada lyrics, any kind of jingoistic, nationalistic cant... That stuff doesn't interest me and I don't even know if I could write that if I tried because I don't really feel it.

Don’t listen to music that is degrading.

We have quite a few political songs: 'Channel Z,' let's 'Keep This Party Going' on. Our lyrics aren't too hit-you-over-the-head, but they have political undertones. We're active politically.

We want to challenge Marilyn Manson and the rap people with the bad lyrics to write some positive songs.

I respect women, and I have not and will never sing anything that will upset my fans.

In my songs there are no bad words, so kids can sing them, and girls can identify with singing with them, too, because it's not like a man singing reggaeton.

My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.

I don't think any of our lyrics have ever been erotic in a sexual term, because I haven't really written, touched on, that subject too often. But, uh... I mean, I suppose they could point the finger at us for violence maybe in certain songs.

We want to be presentable and respectable, but feel like we can talk freely about what we want to sing about - we don't need to cuss to have that bad-boy attitude, I guess.

I definitely think, generally, rap is misogynistic.

And I'm not trying to write heavy songs.

Clive [Davis] tried to tell me that saying certain words in a song - or as he says, 'putting some balls into it' - isn't bad, it's just strong emotion. Well, there are certain words and emotions I don't want kids hearing, and I'm not changing because they think it's going to sell better. This is going to sound horrible, but I got 12 million votes doing what I did.

I hate negative songs; I won't sing them. It doesn't matter if it's sold 2 million more albums.

I thought there were too many songs about people's personal lives.

I think love lyrics have contributed to the general aura of bad mental health in America.

Mase was never a filthy artist.

Especially in hip-hop, no one takes responsibility for their actions.

Food was always a focus for us, lyrically.

People often link grime with other things, like street culture, and clashing, and MC battles and whatnot. But no one's ever talked in misogyny in grime. That's often linked to hip-hop, I know people talk about that is a problem in hip-hop. But not grime.

I write hate lyrics really well. It's not every day you can use them, really.

This here song might offend some, if it does it's because your dumb.

Contemporary Swedish artists that chose Swedish as their language tended to sing about certain topics and use words I wanted to avoid.

I was never a topical songwriter.

No matter what road I take, I can never get too far away from the conscious lyric and the socially conscious content.

Some of the stuff that I say on 'License to Ill,' I say some real dumb stuff.