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

I've never been a suicidal person. I've never been someone to want to see the world come to an end. But I would like to see something different than what I'm seeing. Because it is becoming a monotonous - as if you're watching re-runs of things you've already seen.

Anyone who thinks they're happy should really see a doctor, because there is no reason to be happy.

I used to have nightmares about the Antichrist - what would happen, where it would come from, and who it would be.

Are people raised to be villains or vilified like I have become?

There are definitely Dark Forces out there that none of us fully understand. People fear what they don't understand, and lash out against it

There's days when I'd love everybody to relize that things have gone too far, and we need to be born again...but there are other days when I think the world deserves to be destroyed. Why should I help anybody? Everybody's stepped on me my whole life.