Marilyn is real. I wake up and I am Marilyn.

This is the golden age of grotesque.

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

When people say 'I want to be like you', I tell them if you want to be like me, then be yourself.

If a kid is old enough to drive a car or buy a gun, isn't he old enough to be held personally responsible for what he does with his car or gun? Or if he's a teenager, should someone else be blamed because he isn't as enlightened as an eighteen-year-old?

Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed.

Everything I was afraid of when I was growing up, I've become. I've taken on my nightmares, like the devil and the end of the world, and I've become those things.