I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done.

Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.

If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice?

I don't have any sentimental notion about how people are going to remember me.

To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence.

Most people don't know that wrestling came out of the circus.

We love cats more than we love women [with Marilyn Manson].