For me, art is supposed to be a question mark.

I realized that I started writing songs to make people feel how I felt, rather than just making them feel something. That's not the way I should do things.

If I had to do a record review, I'd say it's got a cannibal, consumption, obsessive, violent-sex, romance angle, but with an upbeat swing to it.

Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference.

When I was stalking my special lady friend on MySpace, people would always say, 'Is this really Marilyn Manson or some kind of psycho?' And I'm like, 'Both'

The record is about seeing death and growing from it, and in the end, being strong and being alive.

There are people accusing me that I'm sick, that I'm a danger to morals, western civilization and basically everything under the sun. And they've got these wild stories about me, completely off the wall, completely untrue. They thought them up and it makes you wonder what goes on in their brain, but of course, they don't consider themselves sick. They think they're normal because they don't dress like I do.