Once I threw a water bottle from the stage into the audience, and it hit Tony Bennett in the head. It was a special moment for me.

Image and music always works together for me. I think they're equally important and I've always done things in a way that people remember them by, but I don't set out to just shock people...because that's very easy, a lot of people could do that, I just like to do things the way that makes me happy really. And sometimes that's too much for certain people, but, you know, I try to push the envelope to make the boundaries wider as far as what you can and can't do in music.

The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at.

God will grovel before me, God will crawl at my feet.

The time that people aren't expecting what's going to happen, I find that's the best time to really cause the damage that needs to be done.

The idea of Marilyn Manson has been brewing in my head, one form or another, since I was about 12 years old at a Christian high school in Canton, Ohio.

You'll understand when I'm dead.