That becomes the revolution, to be idealistic enough that you think you can change the world, and what you find is you can't change anything but yourself.

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

Thinking for yourself - that's scarier than any devil image.

I didn't go to guitar school and I don't know how to play chords, but I can do it in my own way and I think sometimes that will piss off some guitar players who sit around playing their stuff all day long and then there are people who like that.

The point is that life for me is not going to be the way it is for everyone else. I have a fog machine and movie lights in my bedroom.

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.

When I was stalking my special lady friend on MySpace, people would always say, 'Is this really Marilyn Manson or some kind of psycho?' And I'm like, 'Both'