If you act like a rock star you will be treated like one.

People always ask me what advantages fame has started to bring; there are always plenty of free drinks, but other times people want to put stuff in your drink to kill you off. They're going to have to try a lot harder if they want to get me.

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, Fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

They'll see it. And it doesn't matter if they don't. It's only Rock 'n' Roll. But I do intend to move more into the Mainstream. Marilyn Manson is just the First phase.

[According to an official statement,] the complaints are from religious preachers who simply want publicity. Marilyn Manson isn't against God, but against organized religion, ... are just like any other heavy metal show, with kids dressed in black with painted faces. They're not dangerous.