I don't think you can shock an audience anymore. Me cutting my head off is a great illusion, but when you turn on CNN and there's a guy really getting his head cut off, it does dilute what I did.

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

Anybody can make the simple complecated. Creativity is making the complecated simple.

Do not wait for the government to provide solutions to the people when you can be their answer

Making sensible choices is short-term thinking

It is probable that England will look favorably upon the independence of the Philippines, for it will open their ports to her and afford greater freedom to her commerce.

I want to be able to manipulate and control my career from the creative side.

It's impossible to imagine our planet without coral.

[I]t is tragic that the forces for destruction that we unleashed are stronger than man's present ability to control them.

The Art Deco movement, architecture from that period and sort of the industrial aesthetic from that period. Art Deco meets tribal kind of thing. All that is my primal inspiration.

The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.

I know a lot of actors who've just gotten bitter because they did something and then nobody ever saw it or whatever.