I always felt, rather than play by the mainstream standards, we've always done what we do and the mainstream has finally decided to, like that but, we've only gotten more extreme so, the band hasn't got more commercial, it's just that more people understand where we're coming from so more people are in to it.

I was never afriad of what was under the bed. I wanted it but never got it. I became it.

The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth.

Rumors, stories... I'm used to them. I got my ribs removed, I was on 'The Wonder Years'... You know there's a different story every day.

I usually wake up far after breakfast. So I have no other choice but to go straight to dinner.

Marilyn Manson has always been intended to confuse some, anger some and make some people feel at home. There's no way to misunderstand what I do - but everyone can understand it differently. That's the only way I've learned to embrace art - it has to be a question mark, not an answer.

If you're gonna pretend to be something, then you have to at least live up to what it is.