Why be boring? Have some fun. Rock shows should be like movies: I don't go to a movie hoping it'll change my life.

The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.

If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are.

Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's rebellion.

Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.

The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.

The only real person you need to know is you.

Just because I cut the heads off dolls doesn't mean I hate babies, I just hate dolls.

He (Marilyn Manson) has a woman's name and wears makeup. How original.

I was one thing at one time, and I'm something new. I'm a new creature now. Don't judge Alice by what he used to be. Praise God for what I am now.

The best things in life don't make sense

It's really difficult to navigate attention and stardom and celebrity status and still try to maintain yourself and hold onto your intelligence and integrity. It's really challenging.

Earth's sweat, the sea.

Keep working on a plan. Make no little plans. Make the biggest plan you can think of and spend the rest of your life carrying it out.

my spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

Because I could see that all these kids were weird and even they didn't accept me, I knew I was the strangest one of all.

You can't dream unless you know what the possibilities are.

Love calls to love and my heart is your own.

A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.

Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up.