I realized that I started writing songs to make people feel how I felt, rather than just making them feel something. That's not the way I should do things.

I wish that my life could be like the movies, like Bonnie and Clyde or The Hunger or Harold and Maude. And... it can be! It maybe just takes somebody else who is as fearless as you. It takes a person who will not hesitate.

From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes.

I eat innocent meat, the house wife I will beat, the prolife I will kill. What you won't do, I will.

I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.

Dear God, if you were alive, you know we'd kill you.

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.