Marilyn Manson has always been intended to confuse some, anger some and make some people feel at home. There's no way to misunderstand what I do - but everyone can understand it differently. That's the only way I've learned to embrace art - it has to be a question mark, not an answer.

I pity anybody who has to spend a day with me.

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

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

Man is still at the learning stage, and mankind is so arrogant to think that he's the highest form of evolution on earth. There's so much of the brain that we still don't use, and that's all I ever try to do - go to the next level

I don't need to drive. I have no business driving. I would never be able to find my keys.

I used to have nightmares about the Antichrist - what would happen, where it would come from, and who it would be.