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.

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 not like I turn off Marilyn Manson and I'm an everyday guy who goes and has another job and doesn't think about any of this stuff. Marilyn Manson is the most real thing that can come from me.

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.