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"If people really stopped and realized how much art and creative people move the world versus politics and religion, I mean it’s not even up for debate. An artist at least creates things, puts things into the world. Where as these other people are destroying things, taking things out of the world."
"I'm fucking sick of people who always try to blame movies, bands, songs, or talk shows for whatever the fuck hits them today – teen suicides, drug overdoses or everything else. If someone is stupid enough to kill himself because of a song, then that's exactly what they deserve – they weren't contributing anything to the society – it's one less idiot in the world. There's too many people – if more people kill themselves over music, it wouldn't disappoint me. What would disappoint me is that people are that stupid."
"… I don't expect everyone to get something deep out of it. Some people can just listen to the music, or get their aggressions out, but I think with any great painting or movie, album or whatever it is, it's better if people can take what they need from it. That they're not forced to get some particular message."
"The whole concept of this band is to present the ugly truth about society – warts and all, and let the chips fall where they may."
"If someone listens to our music, and it makes them creative, that makes me happier than anything. But with our music, we try to teach the masses of fans that not everything is as it seems."
"I hope that with our music we can inspire other people to be creative and to use their imagination, because it is something that is so lacking nowadays. You have virtual reality, MTV, video games and VCR's. Nobody really wants to think about things or create things. You have programs on a computer which will write a poem for you."
"The world doesn't revolve around the sun, it revolves around a giant cock. That is what the world is about. It's about sex. Anybody who doesn't want to realize this is fooling themselves. People are bored because they've done everything they can do. So now the fear of death is the only thing that gets them excited. That's why some people have made me into some type of sex symbol. I'm death on wheels the way I look."
"Hopefully, I’ll be remembered as the person who brought an end to Christianity."
"[The world's] not a great place anymore and it can't be. I'm sure it would have been much more enjoyable to be alive in the fifties, when there was at least an illusion of purity, and things that were taboo had such a great power to them. I think it was a time when magic was really alive. There's no imagination anymore. It was eliminated with video games and VCR's. I'm only necessary because of the way the world is. Well, maybe if I manage to make the world a better place then maybe I'd want to have a kid."
"I'm not anything like Brad Pitt or Antonio Banderas, but maybe it's the taboo element of my image, which is almost deathlike, that attracts them. I should be the last person that [people] should be attracted to."
"In explaining things to people, I've come to terms with the fact that a lot of my goals are very Christian in the end. Because people no longer appreciate the taboos of sex, drugs, and rock & roll. I have to take them as far as they've ever been taken before, on a grand scale, in order for the world to realize we have to start over. It's very much like the mythology of the bible, the end of the world, and the antichrist and people are made to make a choice about their faith. I think certain elements of that are correct."
"It's really important for me to get across to our fans that whenever I put myself in different circumstances. It is to learn from it so I can relay it to others."
"… if my ideology is a hand, then that's just two fingers. I incorporate a lot of Christian morality into what I do and in fact a lot of my beliefs are very conservative – like my desire for the world to be a better place where people use more intelligence. If you had to condense all that I believe in, it's that responsible, intelligent people should be allowed to do what they want. That artists and performers and architects, people who contribute something to the world, that actually have something to say as opposed to a business man or a politician, say, people who actually contribute to society, the power should be traded. The creators are always suppressed – other than the placebo "fame" that they're always given. I don't really suggest any solution – that we could all kick them out of their positions of power and take over. It's just the idea that if you enjoy what you do, that's why you should do it."
"… if I hadn't gone to a private Christian school, I'd never have built up enough animosity to want to have started a band. And now that I have one, the fact that they are giving me such resistance and publicity, they have made me far bigger than they'd ever have wanted me to have become. So I guess in a strange way the Christians have influenced me the most."
"I think onstage it was more me trying to show people my pain, and offstage it was just feeling it, period."
"Understand this, tell others: in my dream vultures chase me into my burning house. There, they pick out the brains of my family, dismember them, devour. I emerge from my home and I am burning, skin falling away like a snake as the structure crumbles into a black skeleton. I cannot fight off the vultures. A young man or woman emerges from the ashes. He/she doesn't save me, because he/she is holding my cracked and swollen heart in one hand and a piece of paper in the other. I can read it. It discusses and compares in great detail the differences between me and the vultures. He wraps my heart in the paper and tosses it to the ground. Can you see?"
"If you act like a rock star, you will be treated like one."
"I wanted to address the hypocrisy of talk show America. How morals are worn as a badge, to make you look good and how it is easier to talk about your beliefs than to live up to them."
"The only way that you achieve what you want and to fulfill your dreams and become great is by demanding that sort of attention. You have to make it happen."
"[...] art and commerce are in essence incompatible."
"Is adult entertainment killing our children? Or is killing our children entertaining adults?"
"If they think that an artist can destroy their faith, then their faith is rather fragile."
"To me, anything that is a church is really just far too close minded."
"We don't believe in credibility, because we know that we're fucking incredible."
"We don't like to kill our unborn, we need them to grow up and fight our wars."
"Art gives me the freedom I don’t have when I make music. In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary."
"Suicide is painless."
"The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic."
"[A] dude's getting bullied and shoots up his school, and they blame it on Marilyn and the heroin; where were the parents at?"
"Back on the road, it’s no lie... Stupid fucking humans pay money to die! Crushed in the pit, nailed to the stage, I only suck the souls that are underage!"
"With a battle cry go forth which is "Give the people what they want." And what the people want could only be the senseless slaughter of the gutter-slime that litters this nation for cash and prizes. Yes, this is the show where people bet their lives to win something big. / Cause when your life is shit, then you haven't got much to lose on Slaughterama!"
"So, how do ya hide money from a hippy? Put it under the soap!"
"Freedom to all the people Brave, true and strong Freedom to all the people Unless I think you're wrong!"
"The cherub screams "NO" as I move to defile Our bodies entwine in a puddle of bile Many years later we'll look back and smile As we thrash about on the urine-drenched tile The delivery room is as still as a tomb I fuck the child while its still in your womb The child is now dead and you start to blubber Fuck your warm corpse with your child as a rubber!"
"To die Perchance to sin That's the rub For in that sleep of sin What, what kingdom may come? What of the limitless sex and violence in the wake of RagNaRok!"
"Raining death on people Firing into crowds Over there I got a big bright medal But here it's not allowed!"
"Hiroshima, a shadow burned in time Nagasaki, naked baby melts alive Burnt flesh and rubble from sea to dead shore Such a hideous theatre of war But that was the end - why? There are so many more that must die Is that not part of the plan? I must use the nukes I can't kill you all with my hands."
"The Swastika and the Bloody Old Cross Two great hates that hate great together."
"The decay of grandeur From riches to rot The decay of grandeur say To have and then have not."
"All men die so don't ask me why What the fuck else did you think we were for? You were made to decay It's better that way This is the price of your war."
"It's gone beyond hatred this time."
"The Reaganator and the U.S.A.! We'll kill anything that gets in our way! We're the good guys, so you have to die, that's why!"
"You can be a jazz player and be respected by musicians, but the rest of the world doesn’t care. [...] We’re going to play a game: name a jazz player that means something."