I view my job as being someone who is supposed to piss people off. I don`t want to be just one-of-the-guys. I don`t want to be just a smiling face you see on television presenting some vapid kind of easily-digestible garbage. This is rock and roll. I want to be a rock and roll star! Rock and roll is about shaking things up, making people act and react. That`s what I do.

The ability to make small children cry at the grocery store I like better than the fame.

The burden of originality is one that most people don`t want to accept. They`d rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they`re supposed to like, what they`re supposed to buy, and what they`re supposed to laugh at. You have Beavis and Butt-head telling you what music you`re allowed to like and not like, and you`ve got sitcoms that have canned laughter that lets you know when to laugh if you`re too stupid to know when the joke is--people are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves because America has raised them like that.

I picked that (Marilyn Manson) as the fakest stage name of all to say that this is what show business is, fake. Marilyn Monroe wasn`t even her real name, Charles Manson isn`t his real name, and now, I`m taking that to be my real name. But what`s real? You can`t find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best. As long as you know everything`s a lie, you can`t hurt yourself.

Billy Zane is someone that I met and is a fellow artist, and sometimes we work together, painting, however pretentious that might sound. It was really quite simple, though. We would just spend time together, hanging out, listening to music, or painting. We became friends. He was one of the first people I met when I moved to Hollywood. And I think he`s a cool actor.

This is the culture you`re raising your kids in. Don`t be surprised if it blows up in your face.

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

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.

I`m tired of people calling me a devil worshipper. It`s kind of pointless you know. Because if the Devil did exist, he`d be worshipping me, because I`m more successful than he is.

Find out what`s really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference.

Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats for its problems. Well, here I am.

Im not saying that when I perform I`m Barry Manilow, but I`m also not killing kids and beating up dogs and things like that.

It is a great feeling to write a song, but to be able to perform it, it takes on a whole different light.

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

If Mandy [Mandy Moore] and I had a love child (if she was old enough) this is what they`d look like. - referring to The Polyphonic Spree at the MTV Video Music Awards 2004 (2004) (TV).

I view my job as being someone who is supposed to piss people off. I don`t want to be just one-of-the-guys. I don`t want to be just a smiling face you see on television presenting some vapid kind of easily- digestible garbage. This is rock and roll. I want to be a rock and roll star! Rock and roll is about shaking things up, making people act and react. That`s what I do.

I`ve always had the same level of excitement about making music, but now it seems so much more important because all of the blame that was put on me for Columbine. The entire incident, the way the media reacted, the people who were involved, the way I was treated, it hurt me personally because my career is my life. It made me feel a lot like how I felt growing up because it was a lot of people beating you down and treating you a certain way for something you`re not even responsible for. I just really had to re-evaluate what I was gonna do; How am I gonna respond to this, how am I gonna take this? And I wanted to come out swinging with both fists.

I`m thankful that I have two middle fingers.....I only wish I had more.

When people say `I want to be like you`, I tell them if you want to be like me, then be yourself.

In the end we`re all Springer guests, really, we just haven`t been on the show.

Music critics get their records for free so their opinions usually don`t matter.

There are people accusing me that I`m sick, that I`m a danger to morals, western civilization and basically everything under the sun. And they`ve got these wild stories about me, completely off the wall, completely untrue. They thought them up and it makes you wonder what goes on in their brain, but of course, they don`t consider themselves sick. They think they`re normal because they don`t dress like I do.

We`ve always found that with people being so desensitized, things have to be really shocking and have to punch you in the face to get your attention. Then, once you`ve got their attention. You can say something they might remember.

I fear being like everyone I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. I love balancing between chaos and control with everything I do. I always have a fear of going one way or another, getting lost in something, or losing everything to get lost in. And I fear being a completely acceptable sheep in society.

You should have to pass an IQ test before you breed. You have to take a driving test to operate vehicles and an SAT test to get into college. So why don`t you have to take some sort of test before you give birth to children? When I am President, thats the first rule I will institute.

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 view my job as being someone who is supposed to piss people off. I don`t want to be just one-of-the-guys. I don`t want to be just a smiling face you see on television presenting some vapid kind of easily-digestible garbage.

(addressing rumours he had ribs removed) If I really got my ribs removed, I would have been busy sucking my own d*ck on the wonder years instead of chasing Winnie Cooper. Besides, I wouldn`t have sucked other people`s d*cks on stage, either. I would have been sucking my own. Plus, who really has time to be killing puppies when you can be sucking your own d*ck? I think I`m gonna call the surgeon in the morning

In the end we`re all Jerry Springer Show guests, really, we just haven`t been on the show

I talked to Snoop doggy dogg today. Well I`m not sure if you could really call it talked because I could hardly understand what he was saying. But I think what he was trying to communicate was that he wanted to work with me in some sort of capacity and something involving marijuana.

You have to be around people that are interested in having strange times. That doesn`t always have to be depraved sex orgies, of course - it can be conservative sex orgies.

I say no to drugs, but they don`t listen.

(on meeting Justin Timberlake and his mother Lynn) I met Justin Timberlake and I liked him. I met his mother too. He brings her on tour with him, I guess as some sort of prop. When we met I had just watched this sex documentary, unfortunately for his mother, and the first thing I said to her was `Did you know that a woman has three holes between their legs?` She was fascinated.

(embroiled in a custody battle with Dita Von Teese over their collection of dead pets) I have four taxidermied baboons, two monkeys, a white peacock, a turtle and a wild boar. I went through a dramatic lifestyle change with my home after the break-up. I left it. When you get separated, you lose so much. I don`t know what she`ll say when I ask for them back.

I spent Y2K New Year`s Eve drinking absinthe with Johnny Depp in France. We were ready for the apocalypse and when it didn`t come we were very disappointed. So we drank more absinthe and set off fireworks. Since then, I don`t drink absinthe, or drink booze.