When you grow up in America things like Christianity waters down your feeling... When you're taught to love everybody, taught to love you're enemies, what value does that put on love?

As a kid I just felt like an outsider.

As a performer, I wanted to be the loudest, most persistent alarm clock I could be, because there didn’t seem like any other way to snap society out of its Christianity- and media-induced coma.

I fall in love with everything I also hate everything. It’s very hard to be a misanthrope and a romantic.

I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.

I am a character, so that's the problem. There are many, many levels to how I behave. Some people might associate being Marilyn Manson as having lipstick on, but I don't really have some sort of other lifestyle.

One hates what one fears.