Find what you are afraid of, face it, and then you won't be afraid of it anymore.

As a kid I just felt like an outsider.

I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.

I am a character, so that's the problem. There are many, many levels to how I behave. Some people might associate being Marilyn Manson as having lipstick on, but I don't really have some sort of other lifestyle.

I speak in reality. I don't try to hide anything from anybody, and that's the most dangerous thing about our music that parents are so afraid of.

I'm kind of shy, and I think that I take that out by performing in front of a lot of people. That's how I get out my shyness.

When I was a kid I really didn't have my own opinions and then sort of transformed into this angel which is really Marilyn Manson and then the final stage is Antichrist Superstar which is the more nihilistic, totalitarian element in everybody's personality, that, is a real struggle on the album and in my life, between that power.