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

And that's the type of thing I'm trying to speak out against the most, religion controlling what we see and what we do in our personal lives, even if you're not a part of that religion. Antichrist Superstar[the album] is a challenge really, to traditional morality and it's...to make people question that and make people think about different perspectives.

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

My first dissatisfaction has always been with religion.

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

I never really hated one true god
But the god of all the people I hated