But you know, I'm the negative-Nancy, curmudgeon, glass-half-empty-with-a-leak-in-it guy - which is basically the fuel that fires me up anyway. Without that, we wouldn't have me.

I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.

If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.

Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.

This sort of behavior is left to the psychotic, dogmatic, fundamentalist believers you see on your TV everyday letting off bombs and killing people in the name of God. Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.

I think there's a reason why wine figures into so many religions. There's something transcendent about it. It's sort of the way that music is more than the sum of its parts. You have all these elements that make up the terroir that wine can communicate.

I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour.