Sell your soul to yourself. You'll make more money.

The hero is never the star of the story.

I think confidence is the most appealing quality in any human being or any artist; that's what really attracts us to people.

The most outragous thing that I could imagine ever doing is putting on a pair of jeans and going to the shopping mall for my lunch

People hate to describe their music. What we have come to call it is "beat up your mom" music. As far as describing what it sounds like, I guess you'd have to listen.

I haven't looked at marriage in the conventional sense, as far as settling down. I look at it as putting faith in another person, which has always been hard for me to do.

Marilyn Manson is a criticism of gimmickry, while being itself a gimmick.