I like working late at night and then going into the house and sitting down and watching a movie and then going to sleep.

I like contrasting between black and white and color.

I know where the mistakes are. Nothing is perfect and I understand that.

I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.

I like the work hanging free in the frame. I don't like too much frame around it but I like a little breathing space around the piece.

I had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.

I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know.

I liked the idea of the words floating in space and the space behind it moving all the time, ever changing.

And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to them. They don't exist without us. We create words.

Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.

Developing your own style became something very interesting, very important to me.

It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman.

Where the mountain crosses.On top of the mountain, I do not myself know where.I wandered where my mind and my heart seemed to be lost.I wandered away.

You’re not necessarily supposed to believe it…You’re just supposed to believe in it.

The closest thing I have to a spiritual experience anymore is a Mocha Frappe from McDonald's.

You got to be careful of the company you keep.

When I was stalking my special lady friend on MySpace, people would always say, 'Is this really Marilyn Manson or some kind of psycho?' And I'm like, 'Both'

A kite can be flown in an absolute vacuum if it can be towed at the speed of light.

When you have too many people and you're trying to satisfy everybody's input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view.

As a matter of fact, wherever I find that law exists, I will not perform in that state or in that part of the world.

Materialism is the recognition of "objects in themselves", or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects.