"Love and Theft" generated controversy when The Wall Street Journal pointed out similarities between the album's lyrics and Japanese author Junichi Saga's book Confessions of a Yakuza.
"Love and Theft" rozpoutala kontroverzi poté, co The Wall Street Journal vypíchl podobnosti mezi texty na albu a knihou Confessions of a Yakuza, japonského spisovatele Junichi Sagy.