Anything can be misinterpreted. People can look at Christ on a cross and think, This is an image of murder, this is violent, this has sexual imagery in it. And it just - I think it's my job as an artist to be out there pushing people's buttons and making them question everything.

Marilyn is real. I wake up and I am Marilyn.

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.

Let's just kill everyone and let God sort them out.

The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects shaping our personalities and humanity.

They'll see it. And it doesn't matter if they don't. It's only Rock 'n' Roll. But I do intend to move more into the Mainstream. Marilyn Manson is just the First phase.

People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.