As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I'm still not comfortable, but that's why I change and adapt the way I look.

I was very apprehensive, mostly because I didn’t want to get caught. By now, I had begun to feel removed from the everyday world of morality. Guilt had become more a fear of getting caught than any sense of right or wrong.

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.

I don't like the drugs, but the drugs like me.

Art is the free expression of the artist and they tried to stop us from expressing ourselves, our art.

He's just simply John5 because he's the fifth person that we've hired. In the future, everyone will have numbers instead of names

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.