For me, the key to longevity - and immortality, in a sense - has to do with transformation.

The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.

It's my job to be the Pierrot, the clown, in the theatrical sense.

In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics.

Don't ever empty the bucket of mystery. Never let people define what you do. It's not about zigging when you should zag. It's not about doing something unprecedented and unpredictable. It's just about never being a word, or something that is not in the process of transformation.

I care about the people I know and love the most, but I also care about what the people I don't know think in the sense that I want them to think and understand me in a certain way. I don't base my life around either one, and I don't change the way I live to please either set of people, but I do care.