"When I write a song, it runs on a tangent strait from my heart. When you express real emotion, youre bound to slip out something you wouldnt normally say. You can slip in the form of a curse or in the form of blasphemy. It can happen. Its what makes humans, human. By denying us the right to these things is denying us life.
Freedom of speech is a gift given to us by the brave souls in our government. I think we may have, over time, abused this right, but not in our music. Music is listened to by those who are accepting to it
and realize that it is music and nothing more. The changes our words have in people are not within us or the music, it is within the listener. The subject I speak of is the actions music will "force" others into.
Really, no music will "force" or make anybody do anything. For example; If I had a listener who works in a warehouse and enjoys clubs and being with friends, he may listen to the music and it will excite him, get his blood pumping, because the heaviness does give adrenaline. On the other hand, I could have a listener who isolates himself and engages in drug activities everyday on his bedroom floor then listens to our music and kills himself or shoots somebody. Obviously, there was already something more wrong with him than the music. Now you can say that we pushed him to do this because of the lack of censorship. Maybe, but maybe his mom could have yelled at him and he could've done the same thing.
Censorship is all just because people need to point to the blame. Well, what it comes down to is that the listener is to blame. If you cant handle what is said, dont listen. Our freedom of speech still stands and America will have to accept that because artists wont be censored."