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It Says Right Here You've Got To Be Saved To Go To Heaven. But The Way I See It, You've Only Got To Be Yourself To Go To Hell.

I Like To Make People Think Differently Than They Did Before I Walked In The Room.

I Am The Ism, My Hate's A Prism.

If One More 'journalist' Makes A Cavalier Statement About Me And My Band, I Will Personally Or With My Fans' Help, Greet Them At Their Home And Discover Just How Much They Believe In Their Freedom Of Speech.

Freedom Of Speech

When I Was A Kid I Think The Thing I Remembered Most About The Exorcist Was Linda Blair Being Possessed By The Devil, And How Scary That Was. It Had A Lot Of Parallels For Me Because The Movie Was Challenging Different Ideas About Faith And It Was Looking At Religion In A Darker Way. Growing Up I Was Afraid Of Being Possessed By The Devil, As An Adult I'm Afraid Of Being Possessed By The World, By Ignorance, And Not Holding On To My Beliefs And What I Feel Strongly About.

I View My Job As Being Someone Who Is Supposed To Piss People Off. I Don't Want To Be Just One-of-the-guys. I Don't Want To Be Just A Smiling Face You See On Television Presenting Some Vapid Kind Of Easily-digestible Garbage.

When Someone Was Willing To Drown With Me, I Really Didn't Want To Drown Anymore.

My Art Is Not Limited To The Songs I Create But Also To The Reaction It Creates. I Like To Sit Back And Look At The Whole Thing As If It's A Tornado That I'm Controlling. It's Creating Chaos. When You Create Chaos, Ideas Are Turned Upside Down, And Everybody Looks At Things In A Different Way.

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.

It's My Job To Be The Pierrot, The Clown, In The Theatrical Sense.

Your Beautiful Don't Let Anyone Tell You Different

To Me, Satan Ultimately Represents Rebellion.

I'm Tired Of People Calling Me A Devil Worshipper. It's Kind Of Pointless You Know. Because If The Devil Did Exist, He'd Be Worshipping Me, Because I'm More Successful Than He Is.

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.

If You Want To Find Out Who Your Real Friends Are, Sink The Ship. The First Ones To Jump Aren't Your Friends.

Who Your Friends Are

That Becomes The Revolution, To Be Idealistic Enough That You Think You Can Change The World, And What You Find Is You Can't Change Anything But Yourself.

I Decided To Make Music Again At A Time When I Couldn't Have Had More Obstacles.

Someday, When I Manage To Finally Figure Out How To Take Care Of Myself, Then I'll Consider Taking Care Of Someone Else.

For Me, The Key To Longevity - And Immortality, In A Sense - Has To Do With Transformation.

I Pity Anybody Who Has To Spend A Day With Me.

Sacrifice To Me Is Something You Do Without Expecting Something In Return.

Expecting Something In Return

Expecting Something

Art, To Me, Is A Question. It Should Never Be An Answer.

I Can't Turn Off The Way I Think, And That's Essentially Who I Am, Who Anybody Is.

A Pill To Make You Numb A Pill To Make You Dumb A Pill To Make You Anybody Else But All The Drugs In This World Won't Save Her From Herself.

People Love To Judge, As Long As They Have Somebody Else To Judge They Don't Give In And Answer With Hate Would Drag Me Down, It Would Simply Put Me Into The Same Position They Are, I Don't Believe That Their Position Is An Enviable One!

I Think Every Man And Woman Is A Star. It's Just A Matter Of Realizing And Becoming It. It's All A Matter Of Willpower. The World Is Just How You See It. If You Want To Have Other People Tell You How To See It, Then You Can. But If You Want To Look At It Differently, Then It's Limitless What You Can Do. That's Why I Don't Feel The Need To Be One Person. I Can Be As Many People As I Like.

Stop Praying. Start Thinking.

For Me It's Very Important To Express My Thoughts, The Pictures I Carry Inside Of Me, Maybe Because It's Important To Get Them Out.

My Feelings Are, If You're Gonna Lead A Rock N' Roll Lifestyle, Don't Let It Affect Your Work. I Know I Can Stay Up All Night And Still Come In The Next Day And Write A Song, And Nothing Will Stop Me From Doing It. I Expect The Same From Everyone Else.

I'm My Most Creative Between 3 And 5 A.m. That's The Way I've Always Been

Sometimes Hate Is Not Enough To Turn This All To Ashes, Together As One And Against All Others, Break All Of Their Wings To Make Sure It Crashes.

Finding Someone Who's Willing To Drown With You Creates A Situation Where You No Longer Want To Drown.

Finding Someone

I've Always Had A Desire To Be Provocative And To Make People Think, But It Wouldn't Be Any Challenge For Me Just To Be Shocking. That Is Where It Begins For Me, Not Where It Stops. And I Could Be Much More Shocking. I Think I've Adopted A Sense Of Subtlety. I Don't Sit Around Wondering How I Can Make Myself Even Stranger To The World. I've Simply Evolved Into The Monster I Created, And I'm Quite Happy With It.

Without The Threat Of Death, There's No Reason To Live... At All.

Are People Raised To Be Villains Or Vilified Like I Have Become?

If What You Do Is Being Threatened As A Profession, That Could Be Scary. But That's The Same Reason Why I Walked Out On Stage Many Times After Receiving Death Threats. I Couldn't Live Without Doing What I Wanted To Do. So At The Same Time I Have To Be Willing To Die For It.

I'm A Controversial Artist, One Who Dares To Have An Opinion And Bothers To Create Music And Videos That Challenge People's Ideas In A World That Is Watered-down And Hollow. In My Work I Examine The America We Live In, And I've Always Tried To Show People That The Devil We Blame Our Atrocities On Is Really Just Each One Of Us. So Don't Expect The End Of The World To Come One Day Out Of The Blue – It's Been Happening Every Day For A Long Time.

You Should Have To Pass An Iq Test Before You Breed. You Have To Take A Driving Test To Operate Vehicles And An Sat Test To Get Into College. So Why Don’t You Have To Take Some Sort Of Test Before You Give Birth To Children? When I Am President, That’s The First Rule I Will Institute.

There's Days When I'd Love Everybody To Relize That Things Have Gone Too Far, And We Need To Be Born Again...but There Are Other Days When I Think The World Deserves To Be Destroyed. Why Should I Help Anybody? Everybody's Stepped On Me My Whole Life.

And That's The Type Of Thing I'm Trying To Speak Out Against The Most, Religion Controlling What We See And What We Do In Our Personal Lives, Even If You're Not A Part Of That Religion. Antichrist Superstar[the Album] Is A Challenge Really, To Traditional Morality And It's...to Make People Question That And Make People Think About Different Perspectives.

I've Always Been Paranoid About The Police, Because Even When I'm Not Doing Anything Illegal, I'm Thinking About Doing Something Illegal. So, Whenever I'm Around A Cop, I Get Uncomfortable And Nervous, Worried That I'll Say The Wrong Thing Or Look So Guilty They'll Arrest Me Anyway. Being Completely Out Of My Mind On Drugs Doesn't Help The Situation Any.

Anyone I May Have Used Should Feel Happy That They Even Had A Use. It's Better Than Being Useless.

I've Been Able To Watch And To Weather A Lot Of Different Periods In Entertainment, Politics And Life.

Marilyn Manson Is A Criticism Of Gimmickry, While Being Itself A Gimmick.

It's Really Important For Me To Get Across To Our Fans That Whenever I Put Myself In Different Circumstances. It Is To Learn From It So I Can Relay It To Others.

I'm Not Against God, I'm Against The Misuse Of God.

We Don't Like To Kill Our Unborn; We Need Them To Grow Up And Fight Our Wars.

I Am The Pedophiles Dream, A Messianic Peter Pan.

If I Had To Do A Record Review, I'd Say It's Got A Cannibal, Consumption, Obsessive, Violent-sex, Romance Angle, But With An Upbeat Swing To It.

Spare Time Is Like Spare Change. It's Hard To Quantify, The Definition Of That Phrase. What Do I Do When I'm Not Onstage Singing, Or Sleeping, With Or Without Someone Else? I Watch Movies.

There's Just No Great Rock Albums Anymore. There's A Lot Of Rock Music Out There, But It's Very Bland And Disposable.

This Is The Golden Age Of Grotesque.

I'm Chaos, I've Always Been Chaos, My Point On Earth Is Chaos.

We Are The Things And Shapes To Come, Your Freedom's Not Free Of Dumb.

People Drink To Numb The Pain And Suffering. I Think It's The Pain And Suffering That Drive You To Become An Artist. The Art Itself Should Be The Pain, Sort Of Exorcising Every Demon And Making You Feel Like You're A Person That Matters.

Apart From A Very Close Circle Of Friends, Few People Know My True Self, And It's Normal, I Never Put It Into My Music.

You Can't Force Someone To See The Truth, Just Like You Can't Force A Blind Man To See.

A Lot Of People Don't Think About It, But The Bible Has Every Horror Element That You Can Imagine. It's Got The Devil, The Antichrist, Lucifer, And Satan - Which Are Four Different Characters. It's Got The End Of The World. You've Got Zombies, Giants, Demon Possession, A Lot Of Murder.

I Was Never Afriad Of What Was Under The Bed. I Wanted It But Never Got It. I Became It.

I Wanna Outrace The Speed Of Pain.

We Are Our Own Wicked Gods With Little 'g's' And Big Dicks, Sadistic And Constantly Inflicting A Slow Demise.

The Most Outragous Thing That I Could Imagine Ever Doing Is Putting On A Pair Of Jeans And Going To The Shopping Mall For My Lunch

There's A Lot Of Talk In Some Of The Other Versions Of The Bible, The Hebrew Versions, And Things About The End Of The World Not Being A Punishment From God, But Being An Invitation From Mankind. That Mankind Has To Invite Its Own Destruction. And I Think That's Very True, And It's Almost Very American. I Think That's The Type Of Society We're In And It's People's Very Fear Of The Antichrist That Has Created It

I Don't Know Which Me That I Love, Got No Reflection.

The Boy That You Loved Is The Man That You Fear.

I Eat Innocent Meat, The House Wife I Will Beat, The Prolife I Will Kill. What You Won't Do, I Will.

As Far As The Performance Goes, I Want To Create An Atmosphere, And Use 5.1 Sound And Imagery And Shape And Form To Transform The Stage From One Thing To Another, As If You're Watching A Movie.

Sometimes I Like To Get Drunk And Buy Things On The Internet, And Then I Wake Up The Next Day And Find 'em On My Doorstep, And It's Like Christmas. I Get Excited.

If I Hadn't Gone To A Private Christian School, I'd Never Have Built Up Enough Animosity To Want To Have Started A Band. And Now That I Have One, The Fact That They Are Giving Me Such Resistance And Publicity, They Have Made Me Far Bigger Than They'd Ever Have Wanted Me To Have Become. So I Guess In A Strange Way The Christians Have Influenced Me The Most.

I`m Not A Slave To A God That Doesn`t Exist.

Sometimes I Wonder If I'm A Character Being Written, Or If I'm Writing Myself.

I Went To One Aa Meeting And I Got Asked For An Autograph.

I Remember Growing Up, Saying You’re An Artist It Sounds Pretentious But Now It’s One Of The Only Dignified Things That You Can Call Yourself.

Good And Evil Go Hand In Hand, You Can't Seperate Them.

I Feel Like I've Dreamed Half Of My Life That Hasn't Happened Yet, So A Lot Of Times I'm Going Along, And I Do Stuff, And I Know That I've Done It. I Have Deja Vus More Than I Have Regular Experiences. If Half Of Your Day Is A Deja Vu, Then You Start To Wonder, 'what Is Real And What Isn't?'

If A Kid Is Old Enough To Drive A Car Or Buy A Gun, Isn't He Old Enough To Be Held Personally Responsible For What He Does With His Car Or Gun? Or If He's A Teenager, Should Someone Else Be Blamed Because He Isn't As Enlightened As An Eighteen-year-old?

If You Die And Enough People Are Watching, Then You Become A Martyr, You Become A Hero, You Become Well-known.

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.

I Just Don't Like When There's A Rumor That Says I'm Dating Someone Who Is Below My Standards. But When I Got Divorced, My Ex-wife Said I Was Spending All My Time With Lindsay Lohan And Angelina Jolie. I Was Like, 'thank You For The Big Ups!'

If Anybody Wants To Be A Rock Star They've Gotta Try Hard Enough. They're Not Gonna Get It Handed To Them

If We're Bringing Up Kids That Are So Stupid That They Kill Themselves Because Of A Song, What Good Are The Kids In The First Place ?

I Don't Like Fun, It Upsets Me.

I've Never Treated Anyone In My Band Like They're Not On The Same Level As Me. I'm Not That Kind Of Person.

I Still Get Excited Performing Live. When You See The Immediate Reaction From A Crowd, Its Like Being A Theater Performer, Its Something You Can't Get From Being A Writer Or Being An Ad Man ... Its Almost Ritualistic.

Enjoy Your Faults, That's What Separates You From The Rest Of The World.

Music Is The Strongest Form Of Magic.

I Believe Nothing Happens By Accident. My Fame Has Happened For A Reason. My Fans Are My Kindred Spirits In Revolution. If Anyone Chooses To Ignore The Message Or The Messenger, They Do So At Their Own Risk. Believe It Or Not, There Are Many More People Out There That Understand What I Am Trying To Do Than Society Wants To Admit. The Way I Live My Life Represents A Much Bigger Part Of America Than Anyone Would Care To Imagine

Rock N Roll Is About Drugs.

Jesus Is A Half-naked Guy, Hanging, Nailed To A Cross, And Then People Wear That Around Their Neck, And Then Those Are The People That Are Upset About Violence In Movies.

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.

People Are Too Lazy And Too Stupid To Think For Themselves That We've Got Sitcoms With Canned Laughter That Lets You Know When To Laugh If You're Too Stupid To Know When The Joke Is.

The Internet Is A Very Powerful Tool, But Right Now It's Being Handled By A Lot Of Fools. And I Think Us Together, Marilyn Manson As A Whole, What We All Stand For, Should Be The Biggest Spider On The Web. I Think That It Will Become Our Web. Not Something That Uses Us, But Something That We Will Control

Films And Things Like That Are Really My First Love And, So When We Get To Make Videos It's Just As Important As The Song. To Me It's Not A Commercial, For Me It's A Whole Work Of Art On It's Own So, We Plan On Working On A Movie And Things Like That In The Future So.

If I Think I Weigh Too Much, I'll Lose Weight; If My Hair Looks Stupid, I'll Cut It. I Guess I'm My Harshest Critic. I'm Not Easily Satisfied.

You Get Depressed Because You Know That You're Not What You Should Be.

It's Always About Being Yourself And Not Being Ashamed Of Being Different Or Thinking Different.

Being Different

When I Was A Kid I Really Didn't Have My Own Opinions And Then Sort Of Transformed Into This Angel Which Is Really Marilyn Manson And Then The Final Stage Is Antichrist Superstar Which Is The More Nihilistic, Totalitarian Element In Everybody's Personality, That, Is A Real Struggle On The Album And In My Life, Between That Power.

You'll Understand When I'm Dead.

God Will Grovel Before Me, God Will Crawl At My Feet.

I'm A Teen Distortion, Survived Abortion.

There's A Certain Group Of People Who Are Always Going To Dislike Me And Disagree With Whatever I Say.

My Dad Loves What I Do And I Support My Parents Financially Because They Didn't Have A Job That Gave Them A Pension.

I Don't Need To Drive. I Have No Business Driving. I Would Never Be Able To Find My Keys.

I Don't Want To Have A Gravestone. I Want To Have All My Friends Burn Me And Then Snort The Ashes. I Think That's The Only Way To Go Out.

Videos Have To Go Hand In Hand With Your Music, So That's Why, Ultimately, They Should Be Created By The Artist. And If They're Not, It Doesn't Really Add Up To Me.

When People Say 'i Want To Be Like You', I Tell Them If You Want To Be Like Me, Then Be Yourself.

Better Pray For Hell, Not Hallelujah.

You Look A Certain Way Because You Want People To Listen To You In A Certain Way.

To Me, Anything That Is A Church Is Really Just Far Too Close Minded.

Close Mindedness

I Like To Be Unhinged; I Like To Be Unpredictable. I Like To Make People Worry That Worse Things Can Happen Whenever I Go Out To A Restaurant Or Act In A Movie.

This Is The Culture You're Raising Your Kids In. Don't Be Surprised If It Blows Up In Your Face.

As A Performer, I Wanted To Be The Loudest, Most Persistent Alarm Clock I Could Be, Because There Didn’t Seem Like Any Other Way To Snap Society Out Of Its Christianity- And Media-induced Coma.

Marriage Changes Everything.

I Am Not As Self-abusive In The Manner Of Walking Off Stage Bleeding. But As Far As Attitude, I Feel That Twiggy And I Have Finally Gotten Back To The Point Of Being Brothers And Clicked Back Into The Place Where We Really Enjoy Feeding Off Each Other Onstage Like We Did When We Started Out.

Image And Music Always Works Together For Me. I Think They're Equally Important And I've Always Done Things In A Way That People Remember Them By, But I Don't Set Out To Just Shock People...because That's Very Easy, A Lot Of People Could Do That, I Just Like To Do Things The Way That Makes Me Happy Really. And Sometimes That's Too Much For Certain People, But, You Know, I Try To Push The Envelope To Make The Boundaries Wider As Far As What You Can And Can't Do In Music.

Working Together

My Dad Being A Salesman Taught Me You Can Sell Anybody Anything If You've Got The Ability To Believe.

There's No Reason To Change What You Are, But If You're Not Being You, Then You Need To Acknowledge That.

Art Is The Free Expression Of The Artist And They Tried To Stop Us From Expressing Ourselves, Our Art.

I Think That's All A Form Of Wanting To Let Go, Of Wanting To Get Out... It's Not Something Easily Described Or Understood.

There Is Good And Evil Within All Of Us, And I Enjoy Searching To Bring That Out Through My Music. I Like It That There Are Questions Brought Out By My Music. People Must Look Inside Themselves For The Answers

We Live In A Society Of Victimization, Where People Are Much More Comfortable Being Victimized Than Actually Standing Up For Themselves.

Donohue: "it Is Christianity That [manson] Hates, And It Is Catholicism That He Hates Most Of All. This Guy Is At War With Christ." Manson: "i Can't Possibly Be At War With Christ, Because Your Religion Killed Him And What He Stood For. But If You Want To Be At War With Me, Bring It On."

As A Kid I Was, Constantly Terrorized With The Idea Of Armageddon And The Antichrist And Things Like That And As I Got Older, I Realized That, Something Like Antichrist Is The Collective Disbelief In God.

I'm Just Here For The Narcotics.

People Only Hate What They See In Themselves.

If I Believed In An Outside Force That We Wanted To Call God - And I Believe That There Is One. I Think God Would Appreciate What I Say, Because I Can't See God Wanting To Create A World Full Of Idiots

I'm Not A Believer Of The "perfect World" Tv Tries To Feed Us.

Hate Today, No Love For Tomorrow

I Am A Character, So That's The Problem. There Are Many, Many Levels To How I Behave. Some People Might Associate Being Marilyn Manson As Having Lipstick On, But I Don't Really Have Some Sort Of Other Lifestyle.

The Record Is About Seeing Death And Growing From It, And In The End, Being Strong And Being Alive.

Law Is Only What Is Popular. Not What's Right Or Wrong.

Rumors, Stories... I'm Used To Them. I Got My Ribs Removed, I Was On 'the Wonder Years'... You Know There's A Different Story Every Day.

For Me, It's Never Been An Ego Situation Where I Have Been "i'm The Boss; Expletive You." It's Always Been A Situation Where Someone Comes To Me And Says "i Can't Tolerate Working With You Anymore" And I Would Admit Sometimes I Wouldn't Blame Them For That. But I Also Sometimes Think I'm Not That Difficult To Figure Out. I Don't Really Know What Has Driven People To Be So Angry And Bitter - People Like My Old Keyboard Player Pogo, Who I've Known For Such A Long Time. I Feel Bad For Him, But There Are Grievances With Everything.

We Will No Longer Be Oppressed By The Fascism Called Christianity. We Will No Longer Be Oppressed By The Mentality Of The Police State.

Hopefully, I'll Be Remembered As The Person Who Brought An End To Christianity.

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.

Nowhere In The Gospels Is Intelligence Praised As A Virtue.

Positive Atheism

Yes, I'm Reckless And Sometime Express No Concern For My Own Well Being, And I Express A Misanthropic View Of The World, But To Have An Opinion, You Can't Be A Nihilist.

I Was Becoming The Cold, Emotionally Crippled Monster I Always Wanted To Be, And I Wasn’t So Sure I Liked It. But It Was Too Late. The Metamorphosis Was Already Well Under Way.

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.

Use The Negativity With A Space Bar. Don't Be Empty Trash. @#&$¥£€%*+=[] .

I Always Had The Desire To Entertain People, Whether It Was To Make 'em Laugh Or To Scare 'em Or Stir Things Up Just To Cause Problems.

If You Lose Emotion, And You Gain It Back, You Realise That Hate And Love Are Very Important To Distribute Properly. So I'm Not Going To Waste Any Kind Of Emotion On Things That Aren't Related To Me.

My First Dissatisfaction Has Always Been With Religion.

Dissatisfaction

A Story Might Sell If There's A Headline Like 'marilyn Manson Admits To Being Satanic', All The Little Hypocrites Will Go And Buy The Magazine, Read About What Evil, Weird People We Are And Will Feel Better About Themselves.

You Might Find Me Outside With A Can Of Hair Spray, Spraying It With The Hope That The Sun Will Burn A Hole In The Earth. Another Part Of Me Hopes People Will Grow Up And Evolve And Get Smarter. That's The Paradox Of Marilyn Manson.

You Can Find Inspiration For Man's Behaviour Wherever You Look.

Gradually, I Began To Resent Christian School And Doubt Everything I Was Told. It Became Clear That The Suffering They Were Praying To Be Released From Was A Suffering They Had Imposed On Themselves—and Now Us. The Beast They Lived In Fear Of Was Really Themselves: It Was Man, Not Some Mythological Demon, That Was Going To Destroy Man In The End. And This Beast Had Been Created Out Of Their Fear.

People Tend To Associate Anyone Who Looks And Behaves Differently With Illegal Or Immoral Activity.

Sometimes You Feel Awkward Being What You're Best At, You Feel Like You Have To Be Something New.

There's Nothing That Anyone Could Say About Me That Would Hurt My Feelings.

Hurt My Feelings

I Don't Want To Feel Like I've Matured. That's A Stupid Word That I Never Want To Use.

It's Better To Use A Curse Word Than To Hurt Somebody Else, I Find.

I've Known Johnny Depp Since I Was 19.

I Believe A Lot About Psychology, Or I'd Like To Learn About It - I'm Someone Who Likes To Learn About Everything.

Relationships Never Break Cleanly. Like A Valuable Vase, They Are Smashed And Then Glued Back Together, Smashed And Glued, Smashed And Glued Until The Pieces Just Don't Fit Together Anymore.

I Heard This Album As Finished, I Heard It In Dreams . . . It Was Like The Revelations Of John The Baptist Or Something.

The First Time I Performed Musically, I Threw Up.

I Was Always Trying To Do Different Things To Entertain People. And At The Same Time, I Think, I Was, Whether Subconsciously Or Not, Trying To Get Kicked Out Of School Because I Hated It So Much.

It Isn’t Hard To Find A Person Whom I Could Fall In Love With, To Give Her Romance. But It’s Hard To Find Such A Person Who Would Understand Your View On Life, Accept Who You Really Are And Would Truly Care For You.

Falling In Love

When You're Taught To Love Everyone, To Love Your Enemies, Then What Value Does That Place On Love?

What Happens Someday If More People Own My Record Than The Bible? That Will Make Me God Because A Lot More People Believe In Me Than Him? Because It's Just About Popularity. There Are Plenty Of People In The World How Have Never Heard Of Jesus, While America Takes Him For Granted.

When You Grow Up In America Things Like Christianity Waters Down Your Feeling... When You're Taught To Love Everybody, Taught To Love You're Enemies, What Value Does That Put On Love?

If You're Gonna Pretend To Be Something, Then You Have To At Least Live Up To What It Is.

Sometimes Music, Movies And Books Are The Only Things That Let Us Feel Like Someone Else Feels Like We Do.

I've Always Believed That A Person Is Smart. It's People That Are Stupid.

I'm So Famous, People Expect Me To Sell As Many Records As Celine Dion Or Puff Daddy.

I Was A Pizza-delivery Boy At The Pizza Oven In Canton. I Wanted To Get Fired So Bad, I Actually Wrecked The Delivery Car, But They Wouldn't Fire Me. I Was The Only Person They Had Working There.

I Did Have A Huggy Beardoll. One Of His Legs Fell Off. That Empty Leg Became A Place Where, When We Were Doing A Lot Of Drugs On Tour At One Point, We Would Store The Drugs In His Empty Leg. That's Where The Term 'dancing With The One-legged Man' On Smells Like Children Came From, Because Whenever Anyone Was Doing Drugs We Called It The 'dance Of The One-legged Man.' That Became A Ritualistic Thing That Was Funny For Awhile.

I Say No To Drugs, But They Don't Listen.

Say No To Drugs

Ultimately, Because I'm An Artist, I Can't Ever Consider Myself A Nihilist, So I Suppose I'm Optimistic.

I'd Seen The Led Zeppelin Reunion And I've Never Been Such A Huge Led Zeppelin Fan As Much As The Doors Or Beatles. I Went And Saw The Reunion And Watching Them Play "stairway To Heaven," It Was Very Breathtaking For One Reason Mostly. I Can Imagine These Two Guys Looking At Each Other, Robert Plant And Jimmy Page. Not To Compare Us To Led Zeppelin, But I Did Miss The Fact That I Could Look Over At The Guy, Twiggy Ramirez, That Wrote "the Beautiful People" And "dope Show." Emotionally, It's Taken A Long Time To Repair That.

The Point Is That Life For Me Is Not Going To Be The Way It Is For Everyone Else. I Have A Fog Machine And Movie Lights In My Bedroom.

It Wouldn't Even Make You Gay If You Had Sex With Johnny Depp, 'cause It's Johnny Depp.

Watching Movies Is My One Distraction.

I Do Have A Lot Of Sexual Imagery In My Performance. But I Don't Think It's Ever Encouraging Anyone To Have Sex. I Think I Just Show My Own Sexuality, But I Don't Think I've Ever Really Written About Having Sex Or Anything Like That.

I Put A Mustache And Some Eyebrows On, And I Looked Just Like Nicolas Cage. ... We Have The Same Amazingly Handsome Good Looks.

I'm Completely Unlike A Lot Of Other Performers In The Past Who Have Been Forgiven Or Come To Terms With The Real World Because They Tell Everyone Their Performance Is 'just A Show.' And So, People Say, 'oh, It's Ok Then. We Don't Care. He's Not Really A Bad Person.' It's Not Just A Show For Me. It's My Life.

I Can't Go To Sleep At Night If I Didn't Accomplish At Least Something. That's The One Thing That Keeps Me Up.

The Genius Of Art Finds Sanctuary Among Children And Madmen To Survive.that Is Who We Are.

Kids Need To Start Thinking For Themselves. Not To Be Like Their Friends That Think They're Individuals. I Don't Want You To Be Like Us, I Want You To Be Like You.

I Spent Hours Flipping Through The Stations, Watching Pat Robertson Preach About Society’s Evils And Then Ask People To Call Him With Their Credit Card Number.

Nothing's Gonna Change The World, Nothing's Gonna Change The World. There Was Lennon And A Happy Gun, There Were Words On The Pavement.

Marilyn Is Real. I Wake Up And I Am Marilyn.

Sell Your Soul To Yourself. You'll Make More Money.

I Realized That I Started Writing Songs To Make People Feel How I Felt, Rather Than Just Making Them Feel Something. That's Not The Way I Should Do Things.

Art Gives Me The Freedom I Don't Have When I Make Music.

I'm Not A Role Model. I'm A Role Villain.

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.

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.

I Usually Wake Up Far After Breakfast. So I Have No Other Choice But To Go Straight To Dinner.

I'm Everything They Are Afraid Of. Everything They Hate. Everything They Try To Hide And A Lot More. Besides, I Speak My Mind And Show People What's Out There In Reality.

I Get Shocked By People Smoking Cigarettes Sometimes. I Get Shocked By Watching Talk Shows. People's Moralities Are So Far Below What I Would Consider Standard.

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.

The Whole Concept Of This Band Is To Present The Ugly Truth About Society - Warts And All, And Let The Chips Fall Where They May.

People Are Very Surprised To Hear Me Say That A Lot Of My Values Are Christian Values. I Think That's Part Of My Shock. I Just Don't Like The Way That Christianity Combined With The Influence Of Television Has Bred A Nation Of Weakness. (christian Television Do Get The Facts Wrong Sometimes And The Image They Portray Turns Most People Off.)

I Don't Try To Be Bad As Much As I Just Am By Nature.

I Am Truly Amazed That After All This Time, Religious Groups Still Need To Attack Entertainment And Use These Tragedies As A Pitiful Excuse For Their Own Self-serving Publicity. In Response To Their Protests, I Will Provide A Show Where I Balance My Songs With A Wholesome Bible Reading. This Way, Fans Will Not Only Hear My So-called, Violent Point Of View, But We Can Also Examine The Virtues Of Wonderful 'christian' Stories Of Disease, Murder, Adultery, Suicide And Child Sacrifice. Now That Seems Like 'entertainment' To Me.

I Walked Away Exhilarated By My Success, Because There's Nothing Like Making A Difference In Someone's Life, Even If That Difference Is A Lifetime Of Nightmares And A Fortune In Therapy Bills.

Making A Difference

To Me, Columbine Is Just As Awful As Vietnam And It's Just As Awful As Anything Else.

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