People expect me to me a 'shock rocker,' but there's nothing you can do anymore to be shocking.

Marilyn Manson has always been intended to confuse some, anger some and make some people feel at home. There's no way to misunderstand what I do - but everyone can understand it differently. That's the only way I've learned to embrace art - it has to be a question mark, not an answer.

If one more 'journalist' makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally or with my fans' help, greet them at their home and discover just how much they believe in their freedom of speech.

I'm a controversial artist, one who dares to have an opinion and bothers to create music and videos that challenge people's ideas in a world that is watered-down and hollow. In my work I examine the America we live in, and I've always tried to show people that the devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. So don't expect the end of the world to come one day out of the blue – it's been happening every day for a long time.

Use the negativity with a space bar. Don't be Empty Trash. @#&$¥£€%*+=[<>] .

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

You get depressed because you know that you're not what you should be.