My desire is to be pure again and not dirtied by the world. But it's my duty to be as ugly and as filthy as I am, so the audience can experience what I have.

It wouldn't even make you gay if you had sex with Johnny Depp, 'cause it's Johnny Depp.

The Internet is a very powerful tool, but right now it's being handled by a lot of fools. And I think us together, Marilyn Manson as a whole, what we all stand for, should be the biggest spider on the web. I think that it will become our web. Not something that uses us, but something that we will control

I can't turn off the way I think, and that's essentially who I am, who anybody is.

One hates what one fears.

Man's greatest fear is chaos.

For me it's very important to express my thoughts, the pictures I carry inside of me, maybe because it's important to get them out.