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

It's the whole Nietzche philosophy of you are your own God. That's why I debase myself in the concerts and tell people to spit on me. I'm saying to them 'You are no different from me'.

Are people raised to be villains or vilified like I have become?

I think everybody's got a presentation. Everybody looks a certain way because they want to convey a certain image. You look a certain way because you want people to listen to you in a certain way.

Marriage changes everything.

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

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