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.

I try and take everyone's ideals, common morals, flip them around, make people look at them differently, question them, so that you're not always taking things for granted.

I believe in dreams. I believe that every night on the planet everything that is, was and can be is dreamt. I believe that what happens in dreams is no different no less important than what happens in the waking world. I believe that dreams are the closest equvalent present-day mankind has to trime travel.

I don't care if your world is ending today because I wasn't invited to it anyway.

I dare you all to write one more thing that you won't say to my face. Because I will make you say it. In that manner. That is a threat.

For me, art is supposed to be a question mark.

I'm not a believer of the "perfect world" TV tries to feed us.