I can't turn off the way I think, and that's essentially who I am, who anybody is.

The hero is never the star of the story.

I have something that makes me happy on some level and this is a good way for me to deal with the torment of that teenage life gave me

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.

People love to judge, as long as they have somebody else to judge they don't give in and answer with hate would drag me down, it would simply put me into the same position they are, I don't believe that their position is an enviable one!

Fear is something I instill in other people, mostly young girls.

Rumors, stories... I'm used to them. I got my ribs removed, I was on 'The Wonder Years'... You know there's a different story every day.