I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates.

We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.

I'm open to getting more equipment, but I really won't have time to look into that until after the tour.

Micing it from two different angles in front of the speaker sounds huge, and it's so simple.

We're approaching things quite differently this time, but it will still sound like Marilyn Manson.

I have about nine guitars in all, so obviously I'm into collecting.

But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.

Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own.

Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.

I just saw metal as another tool for me to use.

We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.

Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.

It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.

I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates.

I'm happy with the way everyone presents themselves onstage.

Each member of the band has varied influences, and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase.

It's great, because different groups of kids can laugh at each other and still enjoy the show.

There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music.

It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.

Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.

There will be some tracks on the next album which that will consist of mostly noise and feedback, whereas others may just have guitar parts and samples.

We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years.

What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.

If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth.

It was a good chance for us to play for people who would never have heard us otherwise.

I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.

Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor.

All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres.

By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action.

I hope that through my work, artists will take some chances, break some rules, and make art that comes from inside of them. I would like to be remembered as a kind person, a great Mom, and a bit unruly - in a good way!

That pesky acting career has always gotten in the way of me doing something with music.

A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks.

I really do love 'Panama.' But I'd also have to admit that right now, if I were driven to write another novel like that, I wouldn't even try to find a publisher for it. It simply wouldn't be published. I'd be writing it to put in my closet upstairs.

Do something instead of killing time because time is killing you.

I think I had a particular moment when I was 15 years old. I read 'Crime and Punishment,' and that book just, I think, more than any other book made me want to be a writer, 'cause it was the first time that I hadn't just entered a book, but a book had entered me.

It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there were Stephen King, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Richard Adams.

I see my large nose, like half an avocado. I broke it falling downstairs when I was six, and it now resembles a large blob of play-dough.

I support any Muslims, whether here or abroad.

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

Listen, I've always been very headstrong.

When you don't have a laugh track, you can make the clothes funny. We can make a sign funny. We can make the way somebody walks funny. The makeup can be funny.

There is no scriptural basis for segregation.

My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.

A good jockey is one who settles his mount into a rhythm that even the most casual observer can notice. If a jockey is bouncing around on a horse like a pinball machine, then the horse has something to think about other than running.

We had library books in our house, but not our own. So you had 14 days to read them. There would be eight books a fortnight in our house and I'd read as many of those as I could.

Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.

Education enables the humans to achieve their fullest mental and physical potential in both personal and social life.

I'm a big foodie, I do a lot of yoga - I love yoga - I love running... I just enjoy being really active, and traveling.

Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.