People have misconceptions about Marilyn Manson, of course, but they can think what they want.

I was always into very androgynous things. Guys, girls... I'm into androgyny in general.

If I'm going to do anything extreme, I want it to have consequences.

I am trying to be a good person. I am trying to be myself, and if nobody likes me for me, that is their problem.

I'm a big karaoke fan and I also love Justin Bieber unashamedly.

You don't have to take yourself so seriously all the time.

And, look, I'm sorry if I have blond hair and blue eyes and my boyfriend looks like a vampire. What do you want me to do about it?

I was always pale. And I'm glad that I can be open about my paleness now.

Getting to share a project with Anthony Hopkins is incredible. It's like watching Da Vinci paint or something - you're reminded why you do what you do.

The most complicated character I have ever played - she has many, many, many layers that even I'm not fully aware of.

I have my own demons, my own pain and darkness, but I choose to embrace them and look at them head-on and deal with them. Then it doesn't hurt, and you learn from it.

We can only transform our lives by renewal of mind via renewed knowledge.

When I was a kid I worried that when I woke up, I'd find my family having breakfast with my doppelgänger. We would fight to the death, and then my family would peacefully finish breakfast.

How is it possible for one to own the stars?""To whom do they belong?" the businessman retorted, peevishly."I don't know. To nobody.

Her fingers dug into the doorframe she leaned on, hoping and praying that he would just step out of the shadows and kiss her the way he had done so often in her dreams.

Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so glorious an example to mankind!

Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.

When I finish playing, I think I'd like to coach college baseball.

All I need is a big surfboard and a piano.

Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.

For thugs from the ghetto, violence is a way of life - it's what helps you survive.