Yet I was Marilyn Manson - times 10.

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

Tightness takes more energy than the letting go.

Better to lose with the right team than to win with the wrong team.

These felt very much like last moments.

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

In my experience as a record producer, the people who most get involved are the people from independent labels who feel they have more to do with it; it's their "baby" kind of thing.

The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done

It was great fun becoming famous, but I got tired of it.

Ability to have that sort of feedback loop with your readers to me felt incredibly powerful.

I listen to a lot of 80s stuff, like Owner of a Lonely Heart, by the group Yes. And Mr. Misters Broken Wings.

I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people.