There is good and evil within all of us, and I enjoy searching to bring that out through my music. I like it that there are questions brought out by my music. People must look inside themselves for the answers

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 don't want to feel like I've matured. That's a stupid word that I never want to use.

Better pray for hell, not hallelujah.

The idea of Marilyn Manson has been brewing in my head, one form or another, since I was about 12 years old at a Christian high school in Canton, Ohio.

If you're gonna pretend to be something, then you have to at least live up to what it is.

I was becoming the cold, emotionally crippled monster I always wanted to be, and I wasn’t so sure I liked it. But it was too late. The metamorphosis was already well under way.