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.

Apart from a very close circle of friends, few people know my true self, and it's normal, I never put it into my music.

I've always been paranoid about the police, because even when I'm not doing anything illegal, I'm thinking about doing something illegal. So, whenever I'm around a cop, I get uncomfortable and nervous, worried that I'll say the wrong thing or look so guilty they'll arrest me anyway. Being completely out of my mind on drugs doesn't help the situation any.

I'm so famous, people expect me to sell as many records as Celine Dion or Puff Daddy.

I`m not a slave to a god that doesn`t exist.

That becomes the revolution, to be idealistic enough that you think you can change the world, and what you find is you can't change anything but yourself.

For me, the key to longevity - and immortality, in a sense - has to do with transformation.