It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she died, she made just one request: that a picture of me be put into her casket. So somewhere in England, I'm in a casket.

It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she died, she made just one request: that a picture of me be put into her casket. So somewhere in England, I'm in a casket.

I really didn't have any childhood. When you don't know where you are going to sleep for the night... or find food... you can't think with the mind of a child. You have to think with the mind of a man.

I've had about 140 albums released, and I've done everything I wanted to do.

Goths do not hate the world. They just learned to accept the world that refuses to understand them.

I had a very bad year in my life. My mother died in February. I was 16 in April and graduated from high school that June. My father died in August and the mortgage was foreclosed in October. I can remember thinking, This is tough, but this is good for me. It's always stuck with me. I knew somehow that I was going through a period that was strengthening.