If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends. - Marilyn Manson

The key to changing the way people think is to change what’s popular. That’s why rather than submit to the mainstream, you have to become it — and then overcome it.

I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.

The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects shaping our personalities and humanity.