Sometimes you feel awkward being what you're best at, you feel like you have to be something new.

The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth.

Leave me in a room with some crayons and I'll draw on the wall.

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.

People drink to numb the pain and suffering. I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you're a person that matters.

If you believe in what you're doing, you're going to make money. When you question it, you won't.

If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.