From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes.

It's always about being yourself and not being ashamed of being different or thinking different.

I'm not against god, I'm against the misuse of god.

The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.

So anybody with any bit of intelligence has got to be pissed off because if they see how things are in the world they're not going to be happy with it.

America puts killers on the cover of Time magazine, giving them as much notoriety as our favorite movie stars.

God is just a statistics.