Robert Mason talked to “On The Road To Rock With Clint Switzer” about George Lynch’s words when it comes to politics, regarding writing the lyrics on this topic:
“It made you think, ‘God, George gets off topic and says some dumb-a** s*it every once in a while.
“You know what’s really funny? Somebody’s gonna watch this, and that’s gonna be the Blabbermouth quote.
“It doesn’t [come into play], really. A good song is a good song. I don’t go out on a mission to state some cause in some preachy way that everybody else has to listen to. So that’s not what I go about when I’m writing lyrics. If I’m inspired by anything I see, hear, taste, smell, experience, get hit by — whatever — I’ll write about it. But that was not my aim.”
He added:
“He can pick and choose what he wants to say in an interview, and so can I. It’s not like we fistfought or it’s not like we called each other idiots. We’re not that polarized. We’re actually the sort of folks who still engage in thoughtful dialogue with each other instead of just saying, ‘You’re an idiot,’ ‘Nope. You are.’ I think that dissent and lack of recognizing common ground is probably an instrumental problem that people have nowadays.
“Once again, I’m not being too preachy… You know, not to wax too philosophical, but the distance between us in our opinions, it’s not distance between us; maybe there’s common ground there. I mean, I hate to say that and sound all mushy. The lyrics mostly come from me anyway — they all did on the last record — but if somebody’s got an interesting thought or a lyric or an idea, I’m more than happy to write around it. I didn’t think it was that challenging. In a word, it wasn’t really that challenging. And if George has an idea, [he’ll] give me buzz words. He’s not really a lyric writer, but he’ll text me a bunch of stuff and say, ‘Hey, man. What do you think of this? Can you integrate this into what you’re doing?’ And I made every effort to do so.”