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"I'm everything they're afraid of. Everything they hate. Everything they try to hide, and alot more. Besides, I speak my mind and show people what's out there in reality."

"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."

"Marilyn Manson is the most real thing that can come from me."

"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 dont set out just to shock people...because that's very easy...i just like to do thingsthe way that makes me happy really."

"I'm not a believer of the 'perfect world' TV tries to feed us."

"Why should i help anybody? Everybody's stepped on me my whole life. I've put on this crown...but I'm not sure if i want it."

"It's like, i guess just being offended by how much everything sucks, i can't help but be in a bad mood all the time."

"Alot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do. Americans talk so much about being so individualistic, but they don't want you to be an individual because if you think for yourself then you're not going to be part of any trend that they want you to be a part of. They don't want you to think for yourself...Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit there and do nothing about it."

"I want to be a reason for them to take some time off and start to think."

"I believe nothing happens by accident."

"...Mankind is so arrogant to think that he's the highest form of evolution on earth. There's so much of the brain that we still don't use, and that's all i ever try to do- go to the next level."

"I think there's a danger with any great art, that if you begin to test your ideas on other people, and get their opinions before making decisions, or if you pay too much attention to what other people say about what you create, that it really pollutes your expression. I think I'm much more about pure art and honesty and expressing exactly what i feel, and not caring so much what anyone says. However, I do respect, and I do pay attention to everyone's comments. And i do take them into consideration. But i don't base my decisions by it."

"I don't think we should ever regret anything we do. I think we have to accept the consequences and you learn from your mistakes, and that's how you grow as a person."

"Being mediocre is not what i want in any way, in anything."

"There's nothing that's an act about aby of this. But people can believe what they want to believe. Sometimes just because i've occasionally done things with a somewhat cynical twist, people have dismissed it. they dont seem to realize that i take this very seriously."

"I dont consider what we do to be offensive in any way. I've learned how to look at realiity in a cartain way, and interpret it in my own way. But it is reality none-the-less. If reality is offensive, then i cant help it. But what we've done in our music is hold up a mirror to American civilization. If people dont liek what they see, then perhaps they should look in the mirror themselves. We really have had little to do with it. I find it amusing when i read people who say we represent the degradation of America. What they dont understand is that we are America."

"Good and evil go hand in hand, you cant separate them."

"I dont like fun, it upsets me"

"I have no problem if somebody doesn't like what i do, i certainly don't hang out in record stores with a gun and force them to buy my albums. I don't bother them, but they insist on bothering me."

"The smarter you get, the more evolved you get, the more you believe that you're the only thing that's important."

"I think human nature has a desire for always pushing toward destruction. Man has created the idea of heaven and hell; man has created apocalypse - no other species has. If there will be an end of the world, it's something we brought upon ourselves. That's what we do best, is just destroy outselves. Man is pretentious to think he's the final chapter of evolution; man, just like dinosaurs, will eventually become extinct, and man's creations will take over for us."