Having an avatar doesn't give you an identity, and having a persona online doesn't make you a personality either.

I wish that my life could be like the movies, like Bonnie and Clyde or The Hunger or Harold and Maude. And... it can be! It maybe just takes somebody else who is as fearless as you. It takes a person who will not hesitate.

For me, the key to longevity - and immortality, in a sense - has to do with transformation.

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

Capitalism has made it this way, old fashioned fascism will take it away.

I've found a woman I can relate to. That's something - and I don't even feel sappy saying it - that, if anyone has that, don't lose it, because it's probably the only thing that you can ever really find any satisfaction from.

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