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.

America puts killers on the cover of Time magazine, giving them as much notoriety as our favorite movie stars.

The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.

It says right here you've got to be saved to go to heaven. But the way I see it, you've only got to be yourself to go to hell.

I'm everything they are afraid of. Everything they hate. Everything they try to hide and a lot more. Besides, I speak my mind and show people what's out there in reality.

Anything can be misinterpreted. People can look at Christ on a cross and think, This is an image of murder, this is violent, this has sexual imagery in it. And it just - I think it's my job as an artist to be out there pushing people's buttons and making them question everything.

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.