Marilyn Manson

“I believe a lot about psychology, or I'd like to learn about it - I'm someone who likes to learn about everything.”

“The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.”

“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 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.”

“I'm so famous, people expect me to sell as many records as Celine Dion or Puff Daddy.”

“I care about the people I know and love the most, but I also care about what the people I don't know think in the sense that I want them to think and understand me in a certain way. I don't base my life around either one, and I don't change the way I live to please either set of people, but I do care.”

“Sometimes you feel awkward being what you're best at, you feel like you have to be something new.”

“These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way.”

“My first dissatisfaction has always been with religion.”

“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?”

“I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me.”

“I think confidence is the most appealing quality in any human being or any artist; that's what really attracts us to people.”

“This is the culture you're raising your kids in. Don't be surprised if it blows up in your face.”

“I think people have to take responsibility for their own actions.”

“I decided to make music again at a time when I couldn't have had more obstacles.”

“Johnny Depp is like a brother to me. We have matching tattoos on our backs - Charles Baudelaire, the flowers of evil, this giant skeleton thing. It's kind of a secret. People say to us, 'Why did you get that?' And we say, 'No reason.'”

“I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity.”

“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.”

“There's a certain group of people who are always going to dislike me and disagree with whatever I say.”

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