When people say 'I want to be like you', I tell them if you want to be like me then be yourself.

As you keep getting more popular people are continually wanting more from you and it seems to me that all they want in the end is your death.

Antichrist Superstar is also about me wanting to grow up and be something that people would adore... instead I grew up and became something that people hated.

Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.

A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do. Americans talk so much about being individualistic, but they don't want you to be an individual because if you think for yourself then you're not going to be a part of any trend that they want you to be a part of. They don't want you to think for yourself. They tell you they do so that you're happy and you're stupid and you're sheep. Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed. These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way. The rest of the world, who are just willing to accept it, are gonna be doing their everyday jobs, and they're going to be trapped in a rut, and they're never gonna see it until the day they die, and they're gonna be disappointed when they don't go to heaven anyway 'cause they were too stupid to realize that it's not going to happen.

I just try to make people think. I don't try to shock them or scare them. I just try and get them to question.