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.

Johnny Depp is like a brother to me. We have matching tattoos on our backs - Charles Baudelaire, the flowers of evil, this giant skeleton thing. It's kind of a secret. People say to us, 'Why did you get that?' And we say, 'No reason.'

The most outragous thing that I could imagine ever doing is putting on a pair of jeans and going to the shopping mall for my lunch

I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.

The boy that you loved is the man that you fear.

If you act like a rock star, you will be treated like one

I am a character, so that's the problem. There are many, many levels to how I behave. Some people might associate being Marilyn Manson as having lipstick on, but I don't really have some sort of other lifestyle.