There's nothing that anyone could say about me that would hurt my feelings.

The opposite of love is apathy, and hate is really the same as love-if your so consumed with hatred for someone, you might as well be loving them because your thinking about them for the same amount of time.

Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like we do.

Everybody feels like [a misfit] at different points in their life. If you feel like who you are is right for you, then you are beautiful.

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

There's a lot of talk in some of the other versions of the Bible, the Hebrew versions, and things about the end of the world not being a punishment from God, but being an invitation from mankind. That mankind has to invite its own destruction. And I think that's very true, and it's almost very American. I think that's the type of society we're in and it's people's very fear of the Antichrist that has created it

My goal isn't to make money, it's to try and survive and make a point.