I like to be provocative.
To be a little divisive is kind of hot.
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.
If you're not controversial, you'll never break through the din of all the commentary.
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.
I don't think I ever intend to provoke outrage, but I don't mind being provocative in content.
I have learned that nothing gets readers so fired up as saying something everyone knows is true.
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 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 prefer to make a film that people have a really intense reaction to than have a film that people feel ambivalent about.
I think if you're not offending somebody somewhere, then your show is probably just very bland and boring.
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.
