People drink to numb the pain and suffering. I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you're a person that matters.

I always had the desire to entertain people, whether it was to make 'em laugh or to scare 'em or stir things up just to cause problems.

God is just a statistics.

I'm kind of shy, and I think that I take that out by performing in front of a lot of people. That's how I get out my shyness.

Anyone I may have used should feel happy that they even had a use. It's better than being useless.

Mechanical Animals for me documents the repair of my emotions, the repair of my soul, and this record does deal with God in a different way. It deals with me finding God in art, and in music. I think there's more spirituality in art than you could find in a church

I fall in love with everything I also hate everything. It’s very hard to be a misanthrope and a romantic.