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

The music business - and I guess you could say any artistic endeavor - usually rewards those who are on the leading edge of where everything is going, but you can't be too far.

Music is supposed to be interwoven into the fabric of society; it is not supposed to be a plaything that is there to serve the population's titillation of the moment.

I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version.

I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28.

I use music as some kind of weird salvation to get away from life

Time is never time at all. You can never ever leave without leaving a piece of youth. And our lives are forever changed. We will never be the same. The more you change, the less you feel.