Marilyn Manson
To me, Satan ultimately represents rebellion.
I like to be unhinged; I like to be unpredictable. I like to make people worry that worse things can happen whenever I go out to a restaurant or act in a movie.
For me, the key to longevity - and immortality, in a sense - has to do with transformation.
A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.
In the end we're all Jerry Springer Show guests, really, we just haven't been on the show.
I used to have nightmares about the Antichrist - what would happen, where it would come from, and who it would be.
The point is that life for me is not going to be the way it is for everyone else. I have a fog machine and movie lights in my bedroom.
The hero is never the star of the story.
Everything is acting.
There's just no great rock albums anymore. There's a lot of rock music out there, but it's very bland and disposable.
As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I'm still not comfortable, but that's why I change and adapt the way I look.
I'm kind of shy, and I think that I take that out by performing in front of a lot of people. That's how I get out my shyness.
Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.
I've known Johnny Depp since I was 19.
I fall in love very easily.
You can find inspiration for man's behaviour wherever you look.
If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.
The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at.
They'll see it. And it doesn't matter if they don't. It's only Rock 'n' Roll. But I do intend to move more into the Mainstream. Marilyn Manson is just the First phase.
The word 'Antichrist', to me, is the collective disbelief in god.
Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed.
These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way.
This is the culture you're raising your kids in. Don't be surprised if it blows up in your face.
People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.
Marilyn Manson is a criticism of gimmickry, while being itself a gimmick.
The time that people aren't expecting what's going to happen, I find that's the best time to really cause the damage that needs to be done.
I've found a woman I can relate to. That's something - and I don't even feel sappy saying it - that, if anyone has that, don't lose it, because it's probably the only thing that you can ever really find any satisfaction from.
My goal isn't to make money, it's to try and survive and make a point.
When I finish a picture I don't show it to anyone if I feel it's not good enough yet. I've learnt to listen to my partners and my friends. For me it's the biggest success if they like it.
If one more 'journalist' makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally or with my fans' help, greet them at their home and discover just how much they believe in their freedom of speech.
I dare you all to write one more thing that you won't say to my face.
Things have become devalued to the point where people don't realize the repercussions, that they're devaluing themselves. It could end up bringing about chaos, a lawless situation.
Ultimately, because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic.
I decided to make music again at a time when I couldn't have had more obstacles.
My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially because they didn't have a job that gave them a pension.
I went to one AA meeting and I got asked for an autograph.
The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.
Are people raised to be villains or vilified like I have become?
The person who thinks I worship the devil and kill animals is just as important as someone who makes an interpretation that's closer to what I intended.
It's my job to be the Pierrot, the clown, in the theatrical sense.
As a kid I just felt like an outsider.
Marilyn Manson is a mockery of American pop culture.
There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.
Living in Hollywood, it's easy to have someone flatter you. That doesn't help me.
What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.
I don't want to feel like I've matured. That's a stupid word that I never want to use.
I don't encourage people to choose any sort of sexuality.
It's better to use a curse word than to hurt somebody else, I find.
Sometimes you feel awkward being what you're best at, you feel like you have to be something new.