Marilyn Manson

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

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

Watching movies is my one distraction.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

I like Kylie Minogue sometimes - I like a lot of unusual stuff... I don't know - I like Justin Timberlake over Lady Gaga, just musically.

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.

I think everybody's got a presentation. Everybody looks a certain way because they want to convey a certain image. You look a certain way because you want people to listen to you in a certain way.

Actors always want to be musicians, and musicians want to be actors.

There's just no great rock albums anymore. There's a lot of rock music out there, but it's very bland and disposable.

My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama's boy.

I used to have nightmares about the Antichrist - what would happen, where it would come from, and who it would be.

People only hate what they see in themselves.

I often obsess so much about things that I can't get done, that I ruin other things.

I wish that my life could be like the movies, like 'Bonnie and Clyde' or 'The Hunger' or 'Harold and Maude.' And... it can be! It maybe just takes somebody else who is as fearless as you. It takes a person who will not hesitate.

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