Kids need to start thinking for themselves. Not to be like their friends that think they're individuals. I don't want you to be like us, I want you to be like you.

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

I don't like fun, it upsets me.

Music is the strongest form of magic.

In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary.

I remember growing up, saying you’re an artist it sounds pretentious but now it’s one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself.

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