My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially because they didn't have a job that gave them a pension.

What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.

I think confidence is the most appealing quality in any human being or any artist; that's what really attracts us to people.

You might find me outside with a can of hair spray, spraying it with the hope that the sun will burn a hole in the Earth. Another part of me hopes people will grow up and evolve and get smarter. That's the paradox of Marilyn Manson.

For me, art is supposed to be a question mark.

If you intend to create something that people will observe and listen to, you've got to listen to them first.

I realized that I started writing songs to make people feel how I felt, rather than just making them feel something. That's not the way I should do things.