People only hate what they see in themselves.

In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary.

A story might sell if there's a headline like 'Marilyn Manson admits to being Satanic', all the little hypocrites will go and buy the magazine, read about what evil, weird people we are and will feel better about themselves.

I haven't looked at marriage in the conventional sense, as far as settling down. I look at it as putting faith in another person, which has always been hard for me to do.

I have something that makes me happy on some level and this is a good way for me to deal with the torment of that teenage life gave me

...the devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. So don't expect the end of the world to come one day out of the blue - it's been happening every day for a long time.

I say no to drugs, but they don't listen.