I put out a lot of ideas in the lyrics and the way I do my things. There's a lot of ideas floatin' around and people who know what it is. People will pick it up if they know what to pick up.

I'm just here for the narcotics.

As you keep getting more popular, people are continually wanting more from you and it seems to me that all they want in the end is your death.

The person who thinks I worship the devil and kill animals is just as important as someone who makes an interpretation that's closer to what I intended.

Whether you interpret the Bible as literature or as the final word of whatever God may be, Christianity has given us an image of death and sexuality that we have based our culture around. A half-naked dead man hangs in most homes and around our necks, and we have just taken that for granted all of our lives.

I heard this album as finished, I heard it in dreams . . . It was like the revelations of John the Baptist or something.

People expect me to me a 'shock rocker,' but there's nothing you can do anymore to be shocking.