We think it's important to do something that's polarizing.
“We think it's important to do something that's polarizing.”
— Ron Mael · Polarizing
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We think it's important to do something that's polarizing.
“We think it's important to do something that's polarizing.”
— Ron Mael · Polarizing
We think it's important to do something that's polarizing.
Yeah, 'Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth.' I almost hate to admit what it was originally intended to be, but it's been taken on as being an early example of a song that is championing saving the environment. The song was actually written to be, 'Watch out for mother nature; it can be very devastating.'
There has been times when we've had really great commercial success in various parts of the world. And the sensibility is something that's kind of been maintained, but I'm not sure how much our musical environment has entered into it, or if we were more or less trapped into doing what we're doing by the nature of our personalities.
I never felt comfortable with long hair so it didn't make sense to be looking that way.
If they hate you, they hate you, but I've always been polarizing, and I love that.
I can't expect everybody to appreciate what we do. Our stage shows especially have been kind of polarizing. Either you went with it or you didn't, and you thought we were being pretentious. Personally, I think it's kind of boring when I watch a band that doesn't do anything to make it their own.
I love polarizing people.
I can usually play polarizing characters.
For a long time I've been a polarizing figure.