Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed.

A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.

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.

Living in Hollywood, it's easy to have someone flatter you. That doesn't help me.

If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.

My mom was always a big fan of Elvis. She made me listen to Elvis when I was a kid. I hated it. And I think now I've kind of grown up to fill in some of the sort of controversy that he created back in his day, but in a much more extreme, modern sense.

The word 'Antichrist', to me, is the collective disbelief in god.