"That's the paradox sometimes I think the most shocking thing I could do would be to behave politely and speak of Christian morality."
"The only way you can deal with it, especially for me, is through the Paradox, and that has always been the basis for Marilyn Manson, is the extreme contradiction. Antichrist Superstar was a metaphor for my plan of becoming a Superstar by going against the grain, by doing it all the wrong way. And also the idea that everything that I aimed to destroy with music- break down the idiocy of Christianity and things like that- by doing so, I'm just creating another form of it through rock music. I tried to point it out to people. And maybe they don't get that part of it. But maybe they should and maybe they shouldn't. The part of the show where I stand at the podium and I have the banners come down, and I'm mocking Christianity and Simultaneously mocking myself, mocking a rock show, and people are chearing and pumping their fists to it- that in itself is just a great statement. Whether anyone understands it at all, it doesn't matter. The fact that it occurs is just a piece of work that I'll look back on someday and think, "Wow, how did I manage that?" and be proud of it."
"Well strangely enough, a lot of my ideals are Christian in a sense but it's just I don't like the way that religion is portrayed in America. I think the album really expresses, you know, how I feel. I mean it's based on individuality."
