The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth.

I'll pretend that I want you for what is on the inside.

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

If you're gonna pretend to be something, then you have to at least live up to what it is.

Ultimately, because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic.

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.

Marilyn Manson is a criticism of gimmickry, while being itself a gimmick.