"As a performer, I wanted to be the loudest, most persistent alarm clock I could be, because there didn’t seem like any other way to snap society out of its Christianity -- and media-induced coma."
"Hopefully, I'll be remembered as the person who brought an end to Christianity."
"Whether you interpret the Bible as literature or as the final word of whatever God may be, Christianity has given us an image of death and sexuality that we have based our culture around. A half-naked dead man hangs in most homes and around our necks, and we have just taken that for granted all of our lives."
"Relationships never break cleanly. Like a valuable vase, they are smashed and then glued back together, smashed and glued, smashed and glued until the pieces just don’t fit together anymore."
"I like to make people think differently than they did before I walked in the room."
"Fools aren't born, they are watered and grown like weeds by institutions such as Christianity.”
"The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at."
"I fall in love with everything. I also hate everything. It’s very hard to be a misanthrope and a romantic."
"I’ve always been paranoid about the police, because even when I’m not doing anything illegal I’m thinking about doing something illegal."
When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, what value does that put on love?"
"It wasn't very useful preparation for the real world: turning all these graduates loose every year with the expectation that life will be fair and everyone will be treated equally."
"I spent hours flipping through the stations, watching Pat Robertson preach about society’s evils and then ask people to call him with their credit card number."
“I'm chaos, I've always been chaos, my point on Earth is chaos. I'm the third act of every movie you've ever seen. I'm the part where it rains and the part where the person you don't want to die dies. I'm here just to fuck shit up.”
"Anyone I may have used should feel happy that they even had a use. It's better than being useless."
"Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.'"
"Haters call me bitch, call me faggot, call me whitey, but I am something you could never be."
"The fact that nobody liked me at school began to fade out of my mind like blue magic marker reminders scrawled on the back of a greasy fist.”
"My first dissatisfaction has always been with religion."
"We spoke of religion, and how much of it is just a custom preserving practical codes of health, morality, and justice that are no longer necessary for group survival (like not eating animals with cloven hooves)."
"The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects shaping our personalities and humanity."
"My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it's a tornado that I'm controlling. It's creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way."
"I pity anybody who has to spend a day with me."
"I have an IQ of 170. I tried to drink it down to 150."
"Leave me in a room with some crayons and I'll draw on the wall."
"Art gives people a reason to be alive."
"Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference."
