Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.

The word 'Antichrist', to me, is the collective disbelief in god.

This is the culture you're raising your kids in. Don't be surprised if it blows up in your face.

Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference.

I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.

Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed.

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.

These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way.

A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.

Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.

I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference.

In the end we're all Jerry Springer Show guests, really, we just haven't been on the show.

The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at.

Music is the strongest form of magic.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?

They'll see it. And it doesn't matter if they don't. It's only Rock 'n' Roll. But I do intend to move more into the Mainstream. Marilyn Manson is just the First phase.

All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you're made to feel guilty for being human, then you're going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can't escape from.

America puts killers on the cover of 'TIME' magazine, giving them as much notoriety as our favorite movie stars.

Anybody who does not evolve can become a self-parody. I have to evolve on a daily basis just to keep my own interest in what I do.

Are people raised to be villains or vilified like I have become?

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

Art gives people a reason to be alive.

As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I'm still not comfortable, but that's why I change and adapt the way I look.

As a kid I just felt like an outsider.

Don't ever empty the bucket of mystery. Never let people define what you do. It's not about zigging when you should zag. It's not about doing something unprecedented and unpredictable. It's just about never being a word, or something that is not in the process of transformation.

Everything I was afraid of when I was growing up, I've become. I've taken on my nightmares, like the devil and the end of the world, and I've become those things.

Everything is acting.

Fear is something I instill in other people, mostly young girls.

Finding someone who's willing to drown with you creates a situation where you no longer want to drown.

For me, art is supposed to be a question mark.

For me, the key to longevity - and immortality, in a sense - has to do with transformation.

From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes.

Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.'

I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.

I believe a lot about psychology, or I'd like to learn about it - I'm someone who likes to learn about everything.

I believe that you are not stuck with a pre-destiny. I believe that there is ways to see all these things that are laid down in front of you and where you belong and to smack yourself in the face when you realize that you've strayed off your path and get back to where your path is.

I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.

I can't turn off the way I think, and that's essentially who I am, who anybody is.

I care about the people I know and love the most, but I also care about what the people I don't know think in the sense that I want them to think and understand me in a certain way. I don't base my life around either one, and I don't change the way I live to please either set of people, but I do care.

I dare you all to write one more thing that you won't say to my face.

I decided to make music again at a time when I couldn't have had more obstacles.

I did vote Obama. But I've never believed in the authenticity of the two-party system.

I don't encourage people to choose any sort of sexuality.

I don't have anything against Simon Cowell and 'The X Factor.'

I don't need to drive. I have no business driving. I would never be able to find my keys.