And that's the type of thing I'm trying to speak out against the most, religion controlling what we see and what we do in our personal lives, even if you're not a part of that religion. Antichrist Superstar[the album] is a challenge really, to traditional morality and it's...to make people question that and make people think about different perspectives.

My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism.

The idea of heaven is Christianity's way of creating a hell on earth.

Art, to me, is a question. It should never be an answer.

A lot of people don't think about it, but the Bible has every horror element that you can imagine. It's got the devil, the Antichrist, Lucifer, and Satan - which are four different characters. It's got the end of the world. You've got zombies, giants, demon possession, a lot of murder.

The point is that life for me is not going to be the way it is for everyone else. I have a fog machine and movie lights in my bedroom.

If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.