If I had to do a record review, I'd say it's got a cannibal, consumption, obsessive, violent-sex, romance angle, but with an upbeat swing to it.

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 people really stopped and realized how much art and creative people move the world versus politics and religion, I mean it’s not even up for debate. An artist at least creates things, puts things into the world. Where as these other people are destroying things, taking things out of the world.

I put out a lot of ideas in the lyrics and the way I do my things. There's a lot of ideas floatin' around and people who know what it is. People will pick it up if they know what to pick up.

I can't go to sleep at night if I didn't accomplish at least something. That's the one thing that keeps me up.

It says right here you've got to be saved to go to heaven. But the way I see it, you've only got to be yourself to go to hell.

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.