Here is a snippet from an interview from the latest issue of MACHINAH (the fanzine from the Pain of Salvation fanclub)
On the song "America":
"I know that there are always a lot of people that misunderstand and misinterpret the things we say and will feel personally about certain things even though that was never intended. Just like with humour, I think that dealing with certain things you sometimes just have to say what is on your mind and if people feel personally offended you hopefully can deal with that as you go along. With this album we don't try to be diplomatic. Let's take America because that is probably one of the issues we have to deal with. It is not an attack on the American people in any sort of way, but we are constantly aware of the fact that if you criticize the American government's way of dealing with the war on terror then people are going to connect that with disrespect for the victims of 9/11 even though there is no logical connection to be made. It doesn't matter how diplomatic you will be, the only way out of that is not to criticize the American government at all. To get to the point where you feel like this is enough, fuck it, if people want to misinterpret and want to feel personally offended because they knew someone that was killed in 9/11 then contact us and we deal with it. It's still a great leap of logic to make that ssumption, to make that connection. "
On the song "America":
"I know that there are always a lot of people that misunderstand and misinterpret the things we say and will feel personally about certain things even though that was never intended. Just like with humour, I think that dealing with certain things you sometimes just have to say what is on your mind and if people feel personally offended you hopefully can deal with that as you go along. With this album we don't try to be diplomatic. Let's take America because that is probably one of the issues we have to deal with. It is not an attack on the American people in any sort of way, but we are constantly aware of the fact that if you criticize the American government's way of dealing with the war on terror then people are going to connect that with disrespect for the victims of 9/11 even though there is no logical connection to be made. It doesn't matter how diplomatic you will be, the only way out of that is not to criticize the American government at all. To get to the point where you feel like this is enough, fuck it, if people want to misinterpret and want to feel personally offended because they knew someone that was killed in 9/11 then contact us and we deal with it. It's still a great leap of logic to make that ssumption, to make that connection. "