"Those who move beyond the albums title and the most blatent aspect of what I do, will then understand what I am trying to say."
"The record is about seeing death and growing from it, and in the end, being strong and being alive."
"I had a nightmare the other night that people were trying to stab me and shoot me and things like that. I dont know what gives me that dream, but I pay close attention to it."
"Im not saying that when I perform Im Barry Manilow, but Im also not killing kids and beating up dogs and things like that."
"Ive never been and never will be a satan worshipper or someone who worships the devil."
"Antichrist Superstar is also about me wanting to grow up and be something that people would adore...instead I grew up and became something that people hated."
"Your familys and your teachers and your preacher, they didnt want you to come here tonight...They'd rather you be in church..but you ARE in church motherfuckers!"
"There was a saying that I saw on a packet of sugar and I think anyone can apply it to their life: 'Dont bother telling the truth to a friend because he already knows it, and dont bother telling the truth to an enemy because he wont believe it.'"
"When people say 'I want to be like you', I tell them if you want to be like me, then be yourself."
"Im thankful that I have two middle fingers.....I only wish I had more."
"Theres days when Id love for everybody to realize that things have gone to far, and that we need to be born again so that we can appreciate the little things....then theres other days when I think the world deserves to be destroyed. Why should I help anybody? Everybodys stepped on me my whole life. Ive put on this crown....but Im not sure if I want it."
"Why should we believe in a god, that doesnt believe in us?"
"As you keep getting more popular, people are continually wanting more from you and it seems to me that what they want in the end is your death."
"Its like, I guess just being offended by how much everything suck, I cant help but to be in a bad mood all the time."
"People alway ask me what advantages fame has started to bring; there are always plenty of free drinks, but other times people wanna put stuff into your drink to kill you off. Their gonna have to try a lot harder if they want to get me."
"In America nothing excites anyone anymore. Id have loved to have lived in a time when looking up a girls skirt was exciting; nowadays she has to be decaputated before some people can get even half an erection."
"If people are going to hate me, I want them to hate me for the right reasons."
"Hawaii is the type of place that would make you want to kill yourself if you're like me and dislike sunshine and happiness and people enjoying themselves."
"Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats for its problems. Well, here I am.."
"I feel like....I've landed on a planet where I'm not from. And things are too over-intense for me, everything I touch, taste or see is overwhelming. Because I dont think Ive really felt ANYTHING for five or six years."
"What good would Marilyn Manson be, if no one hated Marilyn Manson?"