Things have become devalued to the point where people don't realize the repercussions, that they're devaluing themselves. It could end up bringing about chaos, a lawless situation.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

I'm thinking about entering a Marilyn Manson costume contest to see if I lose.

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.

Mechanical Animals for me documents the repair of my emotions, the repair of my soul, and this record does deal with God in a different way. It deals with me finding God in art, and in music. I think there's more spirituality in art than you could find in a church

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.

Art is the free expression of the artist and they tried to stop us from expressing ourselves, our art.