A story might sell if there's a headline like 'Marilyn Manson admits to being Satanic', all the little hypocrites will go and buy the magazine, read about what evil, weird people we are and will feel better about themselves.

My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it's a tornado that I'm controlling. It's creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way.

Someday, when I manage to finally figure out how to take care of myself, then I'll consider taking care of someone else.

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

To me, Columbine is just as awful as Vietnam and it's just as awful as anything else.

In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics.

If you lose emotion, and you gain it back, you realise that hate and love are very important to distribute properly. So I'm not going to waste any kind of emotion on things that aren't related to me.