Manson: "If you have any opinions at all or if you're even remotely verbal then they're going to call you fiery."

Manson: "I was a redhead and a middle child; both can make you feel excluded. It's like fighting to be included, in the swim of things. After a while you start to develop a bit of a victim mentality, which isn't great for a happy life."

Manson: "I have a temper on me that could hold back tides."

Manson: "A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people bow down to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour."

Manson: "I am laughably aggressive, and the rest of the band is very laid back, so we mix well."

Manson: "Pop music seems to be the way radio programming has chosen to support female artists. They have chosen not to support a more provocative voice from women, which I find disappointing."

Manson: "I would say I'm pretty well at ease with my sexuality, but I'm an individual before I am a female."

Manson: "Until we command the exact same salary as every male counterpart, I feel a political desire to stand by other women. If we don't stand together, that equality will never be fully realized, and that bothers me."

Manson: "I want to hear an alternative viewpoint, and I don't want girls to be defanged and declawed and pretty and mute."

Manson: "The sensation of never feeling good enough or pretty enough will always be there. It's a constant dialogue, and you just learn to be more powerful than that other voice. When you hear it come up, you shut it down."

Manson: "It's definitely an intrinsic part of my makeup that makes me want to see black when everyone else is seeing white."

Manson: "I think a lot of people in their lives feel like they don't fit in, even if it looks like they do. People feel like outsiders even if others think we, the lives we live, have everything. If they are popular or they have everything they are supposed to have. Even then, people still don't feel quite included."

Manson: "I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather."

Manson: "It's unhealthy for people to never express any kind of negativity or doubt. To have balance, you need to address that side of your thoughts as well as the positive. Otherwise, you tend toward crazy."

Manson: "I'm a loud person; I love noise and aggression. I crave contact."

Manson: "I am not a sexy woman, I'm not beautiful, I'm not a sex kitten, I don't flirt with people, yet I've been tagged more of sex symbol than women who truly are and that's solely because I don't reveal too much: people are curious."

Manson: "No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me."

Manson: "I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty. You don't really hear a female perspective on the radio, because so many of the songs are being written by men."

Manson: "The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing and terrible, paralysing depression."

Manson: "Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society."

Manson: "I mean, I tend to do my own thing, and that usually crosses purposes with everyone around me."

Manson: "Until we command the exact same salary as every male counterpart, I feel a political desire to stand by other women. If we don't stand together, that equality will never be fully realized, and that bothers me."

Manson: "I just want to live my life a little freely and not adhere to any schedule - just make music and have fun."

Manson: "It's unhealthy for people to never express any kind of negativity or doubt. To have balance, you need to address that side of your thoughts as well as the positive. Otherwise, you tend toward crazy."

Manson: "I'm afraid of happy people. They're chemically unbalanced."

Manson: "It's really difficult to navigate attention and stardom and celebrity status and still try to maintain yourself and hold onto your intelligence and integrity. It's really challenging."

Manson: "Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy."

Manson: "How you present yourself is nobody's business but your own. The stylists have an opinion. The hair people have an opinion. The fans and the management have opinions. Ultimately, you have to trust that you are the safe-keeper of yourself."

Manson: "I just am fascinated by other female artists, probably because I feel a kinship with them, no matter who they are and what they do."

Manson: "I want to hear from the creature who isn't blessed with unbelievable good looks and incredible genes. I want to hear from the geek girl, the forgotten girl, the invisible girl and the miserable girl."