Marilyn Manson Quotes:

Music is the strongest form of magic.

Topics: Music, Magic, Form, Magical Places, Music Artist

It's always about being yourself and not being ashamed of being different or thinking different.

Topics: Being Yourself, Thinking, Being Different

Seance to renaissance. So it begins

source: - Twitter post from Jan 19, 2015

Topics: Renaissance

I try and take everyone's ideals, common morals, flip them around, make people look at them differently, question them, so that you're not always taking things for granted.

Topics: People, Trying, Flip, Taking Things For Granted

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

Topics: People

You look a certain way because you want people to listen to you in a certain way.

Topics: People, Want, Way

If I were in a room full of people, I'd rather be the person who is more interesting than the one who is wallpaper.

Topics: People, Interesting, Rooms

I do have a lot of sexual imagery in my performance. But I don't think it's ever encouraging anyone to have sex. I think I just show my own sexuality, but I don't think I've ever really written about having sex or anything like that.

Topics: Sex, Thinking, Imagery

I`m not a slave to a god that doesn`t exist.

Topics: Atheist, Slave

I don't think that my lyrics are over-laced with profanity, because I myself don't speak using a lot of profanity in normal conversation. But I think when you're making something aggressive and you need to get a point across, if you're angry, sometimes profanity is necessary. It's better to use a curse word than to hurt somebody else, I find.

Topics: Hurt, Thinking, Use, Curse Words

I don't like the drugs, but the drugs like me.

Topics: Alcohol, Drug, Drugs And Alcohol

If you die and enough people are watching, then you become a martyr, you become a hero, you become well-known.

Topics: Hero, People, Well Known

Libido, fascination, too much oral defecation. White trash get down on your knees, time for cake and sodomy.

Topics: Cake, White, Knees, White Trash, Libido

My mom was always a big fan of Elvis. She made me listen to Elvis when I was a kid. I hated it. And I think now I've kind of grown up to fill in some of the sort of controversy that he created back in his day, but in a much more extreme, modern sense.

Topics: Mom, Kids, Thinking

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

source: - Song: Man That You Fear, Album: Antichrist Superstar, 1996

Topics: Love, Dream, Wish, Manson

Anything can be misinterpreted. People can look at Christ on a cross and think, This is an image of murder, this is violent, this has sexual imagery in it. And it just - I think it's my job as an artist to be out there pushing people's buttons and making them question everything.

Topics: Jobs, Artist, Thinking, Misinterpreted

The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth.

Topics: World, Morbid, Today's Youth

I'm chaos, I've always been chaos, my point on Earth is chaos.

Topics: Earth, Chaos

You get depressed because you know that you're not what you should be.

Topics: Life, Should

I'm just here for the narcotics.

Topics: Narcotics

The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic.

Topics: Political, Tragedy

If they think that an artist can destroy their faith, then their faith is rather fragile.

Topics: Artist, Thinking

Art, to me, is a question. It should never be an answer.

Topics: Art, Answers, Should

Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?

Topics: Children, Entertainment, Adults

Videos have to go hand in hand with your music, so that's why, ultimately, they should be created by the artist. And if they're not, it doesn't really add up to me.

Topics: Artist, Hands, Video

You cannot sedate all the things you hate.

source: - Song: Strange Same Dogma, Album: Portrait of an American Family

Topics: Hate, Alcohol, Drug

We don't like to kill our unborn; we need them to grow up and fight our wars.

Topics: Growing Up, War, Fighting

What I'm doing is keeping the spirit of Rock'N Roll alive. Rock 'n roll is supposed to be fast and loud and its supposed to piss off the older generation.

Topics: Rocks, Generations, Alive, Older Generation

The most genius ideas are in the minds of children and lunatics. I describe myself as somewhere in between.

Topics: Children, Ideas, Mind, Describe Myself

My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism.

Topics: Mother, Memories, Father

I dare you all to write one more thing that you won't say to my face.

Topics: Writing, Faces, Dare

Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference.

Topics: Reality, Differences, Making A Difference

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

Topics: Needs, Reason, Acknowledge

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.

Topics: Violence, Violent, Favourite, Modernity, Columbine

In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it.

source: - Chuck Klosterman (2014). “I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Hero, Armor, Stories

Art is a big question mark.

Topics: Art, Bigs, Mark, Big Questions

If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.

Topics: Real, Ships, Firsts, Who Your Real Friends Are, Who Your Friends Are

Better pray for hell, not hallelujah.

Topics: Praying, Hell, Hallelujah

It's the whole Nietzche philosophy of you are your own God. That's why I debase myself in the concerts and tell people to spit on me. I'm saying to them 'You are no different from me'.

Topics: God, Philosophy, People

If you act like a rock star, you will be treated like one

Topics: Stars, Rocks, Rock Star

I have mood poisoning. Must be something I hate.

Topics: Hate, Mood, Pun

If you believe in what you're doing, you're going to make money. When you question it, you won't.

Topics: Believe, Doing You, Making Money

If people are going to hate me, I want them to hate me for the right reasons

Topics: Hate, People, Want

Anyone who thinks they're happy should really see a doctor, because there is no reason to be happy.

Topics: Thinking, Doctors, Rock N Roll, Reasons To Be Happy

I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.

Topics: Offensive

Sacrifice to me is something you do without expecting something in return.

Topics: Sacrifice, Return, Expecting, Expecting Something, Expecting Something In Return

I talked to Snoop Doggy Dog today. Well I'm not sure if you could really call it talked because I could hardly understand what he was saying. But i think he was trying to communicate was that he wanted to work with me in some sort of capacity and something involving marijuana.

Topics: Dog, Marijuana, Thinking, Involving, Medical Marijuana

Don't ever empty the bucket of mystery. Never let people define what you do. It's not about zigging when you should zag. It's not about doing something unprecedented and unpredictable. It's just about never being a word, or something that is not in the process of transformation.

Topics: People, Buckets, Transformation

What nearly everybody in my life had misunderstood about Satanism was that it is not about ritual sacrifices, digging up graves and worshipping the devil. The devil doesn't exist. Satanism is about worshipping yourself, because you are responsible for your own good and evil.

Topics: Sacrifice, Evil, Religion, Satanism

To me, Satan ultimately represents rebellion.

Topics: Satan, Rebellion

I don't want to have a gravestone. I want to have all my friends burn me and then snort the ashes. I think that's the only way to go out.

Topics: Thinking, Want, Way

What doesn't kill you is gonna leave a scar.

Topics: Scar

If one more 'journalist' makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally or with my fans' help, greet them at their home and discover just how much they believe in their freedom of speech.

Topics: Believe, Home, Freedom Of Speech

I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity.

Topics: Thinking, Fire, Mind

Are people raised to be villains or vilified like I have become?

Topics: People, Villain, Raised

My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially because they didn't have a job that gave them a pension.

Topics: Jobs, Dad, Parent, Dad Love

Leave me in a room with some crayons and I'll draw on the wall.

Topics: Wall, Rooms, Crayon

Everything is acting.

Topics: Acting

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?

Topics: Love, Enemy, Taught, Manson, Victimization

People only hate what they see in themselves.

Topics: Hate, People

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

Topics: People, Society, Anarchy, Victimization

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.

Topics: Together, Pieces, Vases

Enjoy your faults, that's what separates you from the rest of the world.

Topics: World, Faults, Enjoy

If Satan wasn't around, churches would go out of business.

source: - "A Dangerous Man? Marilyn Manson Says He’s Become His Own Nightmares". Interview with Dan Aquilante, nypost.com. November 17, 2000.

Topics: Church, Satan, Ifs

You have to be saved to get into heaven....you only have to be you to get into hell.

Topics: Heaven, Hell, Be You

The opposite of love is apathy, and hate is really the same as love-if your so consumed with hatred for someone, you might as well be loving them because your thinking about them for the same amount of time.

Topics: Hate, Love Is, Thinking

I wasn't born with enough middle fingers

source: - Song: Irresponsible Hate Anthem, Album: Antichrist Superstar, 1996

Topics: Evil, Hateful, Middle Finger

It isn’t hard to find a person whom I could fall in love with, to give her romance. But it’s hard to find such a person who would understand your view on life, accept who you really are and would truly care for you.

Topics: Falling In Love, Views, Giving, Care For You

The imagination is precious. Don't lose it. Don't lose the child in you.

Topics: Children, Imagination, Loses

There's a big difference, I discovered, between wanting to die and not wanting to live. When you want to die, you at least have a goal. When you don't want to live, you're really just empty. That's the point I was at before I was able to make.

source: - "Marilyn Manson Reveals He Came Close To Suicide; LP 'Was My Salvation'" by Chris Harris, www.mtv.com. May 04, 2007.

Topics: Differences, Wanting To Die, Bigs, Anger And Fear, Good Goal

Finding someone who's willing to drown with you creates a situation where you no longer want to drown.

source: - "Marilyn Manson Reveals He Came Close To Suicide; LP 'Was My Salvation'" by Chris Harris, www.mtv.com. May 04, 2007.

Topics: Want, Finding Someone, Situation

You can't force someone to see the truth, just like you can't force a blind man to see.

Topics: Men, Blind, Like You, Blind Man

I don't think we should ever regret anything we do. I think we have to accept the consequences and you learn from your mistakes, and that's how you grow as a person

Topics: Regret, Mistake, Thinking, Learn From Your Mistakes

I fall in love with everything I also hate everything. It’s very hard to be a misanthrope and a romantic.

Topics: Falling In Love, Hate, Misanthrope

I'm not against god, I'm against the misuse of god.

Topics: Religious, Misuse

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

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Being Yourself, People, Want

People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves that we've got sitcoms with canned laughter that lets you know when to laugh if you're too stupid to know when the joke is.

Topics: Laughter, Stupid, Thinking

Black eyeliner. It’s standard. It’s all you need. It just makes the world a better place.

Topics: Black, Needs, World, Eyeliner

I don't care if your world is ending today because I wasn't invited to it anyway.

source: - Song: (s)aint, Album: The Golden Age of Grotesque, 2003

Topics: World, Care, Today

You should have to pass an IQ test before you breed. You have to take a driving test to operate vehicles and an SAT test to get into college. So why don’t you have to take some sort of test before you give birth to children? When I am President, that’s the first rule I will institute.

Topics: Children, College, Should Have

If things are too perfect, people are always so afraid that it's going to change, so they ruin it themselves.

Topics: People, Perfect, Ruins

Your beautiful don't let anyone tell you different

Topics: Beautiful, Your Beautiful, Different

Everybody feels like [a misfit] at different points in their life. If you feel like who you are is right for you, then you are beautiful.

Topics: Beautiful, Different, Misfits

Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like we do.

Topics: Book, Sometimes, Feels

Sell your soul to yourself. You'll make more money.

Topics: Crazy, Mad, Soul

Find what you are afraid of, face it, and then you won't be afraid of it anymore.

Topics: Life, Fear, Bravery

People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.

Topics: People, Looks, Illegal

Donohue: "It is Christianity that [Manson] hates, and it is Catholicism that he hates most of all. This guy is at war with Christ." Manson: "I can't possibly be at war with Christ, because your religion killed him and what he stood for. But if you want to be at war with me, bring it on."

Topics: Religious, Hate, War

Law is only what is popular. Not what's right or wrong.

Topics: Law

People drink to numb the pain and suffering. I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you're a person that matters.

source: - Source: archive.azcentral.com

Topics: Art, Pain, Thinking

Dear God, if you were alive, you know we'd kill you.

source: - Song: Godeatgod, Album: Holy Wood (In The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death), 2000

Topics: Evil, Atheism, Alive

I've seen my own death in dreams like this and it's helped me appreciate life more. I've also seen my own life in dreams and it's helped me appreciate death more.

Topics: Dream, Appreciate, My Own

Just remember when you think you're free, the crack in your heart is me.

Topics: Heart, Thinking, Cracks, Remember When

Having an avatar doesn't give you an identity, and having a persona online doesn't make you a personality either.

Topics: Giving, Personality, Identity

I like to make people think differently than they did before I walked in the room.

source: - "Marilyn Manson on his new album 'Born Villain'" by Abbey Goodman, www.cnn.com. May 1, 2012.

Topics: Thinking, People, Rooms

It happens every millennium. Now more than ever, man threatens to destroy himself with his own technology, and all the ideas contained within Big Brother exist within Little Brother. We're all watching ourselves. We are our own oppressors. This is a time when an idea like God is needed more than ever. For me, I've found that God exists within yourself and what you create. The only thing we've got to look forward to is saving ourselves

Topics: Brother, Technology, Men

There are people accusing me that I'm sick, that I'm a danger to morals, western civilization and basically everything under the sun. And they've got these wild stories about me, completely off the wall, completely untrue. They thought them up and it makes you wonder what goes on in their brain, but of course, they don't consider themselves sick. They think they're normal because they don't dress like I do.

Topics: Wall, Thinking, Civilization, Off The Wall, Accusing Me

NO WE ARE NOT DEVIL WORSHIPPERS!!! I've never been and never will be a satan worshipper or someone who worships a devil.

Topics: Devil, Worship, Satan, Worshippers

A pill to make you numb, a pill to make you dumb.

source: - Song: Coma White, Album: Mechanical Animals

Topics: Alcohol, Drug, Dumb

I've never been a suicidal person. I've never been someone to want to see the world come to an end. But I would like to see something different than what I'm seeing. Because it is becoming a monotonous - as if you're watching re-runs of things you've already seen.

source: - Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. April 3, 2015.

Topics: Running, Suicidal, Different

I'm absolutely not looking for someone who agrees with me about everything or someone who wants to please me by believing what I believe.

Topics: Believe, Please Me, Want

I don't like fun, it upsets me.

Topics: Fun, Upset

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.'

source: - "Marilyn Manson on his new album 'Born Villain'". Interview with Abbey Goodman, www.cnn.com. May 1, 2012.

Topics: Christian, Art, Growing Up, Christian Schools, Antichrist

When people ask me about drugs and alcohol, I say "Yeah, I went to rehab, I went to a mental hospital, I've been to jail." The main lesson you can learn is do drugs and alcohol when you are in a good mood, not when you are in a bad mood, and find balance in anything you do.

source: - Source: archive.azcentral.com

Topics: Jail, People, Alcohol

This is the culture you're raising your kids in. Don't be surprised if it blows up in your face.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Kids, Blow, Culture

So anybody with any bit of intelligence has got to be pissed off because if they see how things are in the world they're not going to be happy with it.

source: - "1996 Headbangers Ball Marilyn Manson & Twiggy Ramirez". Interview with Vanessa Varvick, www.mansonwiki.com. October 11, 1996.

Topics: Pissed Off, World, Bits

My dream of an apocalypse that was the Antichrist Superstar has unfolded. I could see that they only looked and acted like humans, but they had lost their souls, they were Mechanical Animals

Topics: Dream, Animal, Soul

I think there's a danger with any great art, that if you begin to test your ideas on other people, and get their opinions before making decisions, or if you pay too much attention to what other people say about what you create, that it really pollutes your expression. I think that I'm much more about pure art and honesty and expressing exactly what I feel, and not caring so much what anyone says. However, I do respect, and I do pay attention to everyone's comments. And I do take them into consideration. But I don't base my decisions by it

Topics: Art, Honesty, Caring

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.

source: - "The Henry Rollins Show", April 13, 2007.

Topics: Art, Moving, Mean, Destroying Things

Let's just kill everyone and let God sort them out.

Topics: Letting Go, Revenge, Retribution

I think guilt is the biggest problem in America, people are always feeling guilty about being themselves. You can't say what you want because it's not politically correct. You can't look like you want because you, the people at the office aren't going to like you and so on.

source: - Source: www.mansonwiki.com

Topics: Thinking, People, Office, Feeling Guilty

Someday, when I manage to finally figure out how to take care of myself, then I'll consider taking care of someone else.

Topics: Care, Someday, Figures

I was never afriad of what was under the bed. I wanted it but never got it. I became it.

Topics: Bed, Wanted

It's shocking to me that it's easier to buy a gun at Wal-Mart than it is to buy my record.

Topics: Gun, Records, Easier

I'm a confession that is waiting to be heard

source: - Song: Spade

Topics: Waiting, Confession, Heard

I believe that you are not stuck with a pre-destiny. I believe that there is ways to see all these things that are laid down in front of you and where you belong and to smack yourself in the face when you realize that you've strayed off your path and get back to where your path is.

Topics: Believe, Destiny, Way, Where You Belong

If your reality is the same as my reality, then you're in trouble.

Topics: Fear, Reality, Atheism

Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself.

Topics: Writing, Character, Sometimes, Sometimes I Wonder

Jesus is a half-naked guy, hanging, nailed to a cross, and then people wear that around their neck, and then those are the people that are upset about violence in movies.

Topics: Jesus, People, Guy, Violence In Movies

We are the things and shapes to come, your freedom's not free of dumb.

Topics: Dumb, Shapes, Politics, Your Freedom

I was becoming the cold, emotionally crippled monster I always wanted to be, and I wasn’t so sure I liked it. But it was too late. The metamorphosis was already well under way.

Topics: Monsters, Too Late, Way

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.

Topics: Taken, Home, Men, Final Words

When you're in a relationship, if you just break it down to regular terms, people are attracted to something, and that's what they want you to be, and that's what you should just be, and for me, it's very simple - if I meet a girl and I say, 'This is what I like about you. Just continue. Every day'

Topics: Girl, Simple, People

If you intend to create something that people will observe and listen to, you've got to listen to them first.

source: - "Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories". Book by Marilyn Manson, 2004.

Topics: People, Firsts, Ifs

If you lose emotion, and you gain it back, you realise that hate and love are very important to distribute properly. So I'm not going to waste any kind of emotion on things that aren't related to me.

source: - "The life and loves of a he-devil" by Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2007.

Topics: Hate, Important, And Love

There is good and evil within all of us, and I enjoy searching to bring that out through my music. I like it that there are questions brought out by my music. People must look inside themselves for the answers

Topics: Evil Within, People, Looks

I'm tired of people calling me a devil worshipper. It's kind of pointless you know. Because if the Devil did exist, he'd be worshipping me, because I'm more successful than he is.

Topics: Tired, Successful, People, Worshippers

I often obsess so much about things that I can't get done, that I ruin other things.

Topics: Done, Ruins, I Can

We are our own wicked gods with little 'g's' and big dicks, sadistic and constantly inflicting a slow demise.

source: - Song: My Monkey

Topics: Wicked, Demise, Littles, Sadistic

I don't want to feel like I've matured. That's a stupid word that I never want to use.

Topics: Stupid, Use, Want, Matured

The point is that life for me is not going to be the way it is for everyone else. I have a fog machine and movie lights in my bedroom.

Topics: Movie, Light, Fog

I've always been paranoid about the police, because even when I'm not doing anything illegal, I'm thinking about doing something illegal. So, whenever I'm around a cop, I get uncomfortable and nervous, worried that I'll say the wrong thing or look so guilty they'll arrest me anyway. Being completely out of my mind on drugs doesn't help the situation any.

Topics: Thinking, Drug, Police, Of My Mind

As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I'm still not comfortable, but that's why I change and adapt the way I look.

source: - "This much I know: Marilyn Manson". Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2012.

Topics: Kids, Teeth, Acne, Braces

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.

Topics: Evil, Choices, Personality

Sometimes I like to get drunk and buy things on the internet, and then I wake up the next day and find 'em on my doorstep, and it's like Christmas. I get excited.

source: - Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. April 3, 2015.

Topics: Next Day, Drunk, Wake Up, Doorstep

Anybody who does not evolve can become a self-parody. I have to evolve on a daily basis just to keep my own interest in what I do.

Topics: Self, Doe, Parody

If every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes off of your life, every game of Dungeons & Dragons you play delays the loss of your virginity by seven hours.

source: - Marilyn Manson, Neil Strauss (2012). “The Long Hard Road Out of Hell”, p.26, Harper Collins

Topics: Loss, Dragons, Games

All the drugs in the world won't save us from ourselves.

Topics: Drug, World

I've found a woman I can relate to. That's something - and I don't even feel sappy saying it - that, if anyone has that, don't lose it, because it's probably the only thing that you can ever really find any satisfaction from.

Topics: Satisfaction, Found, Feels

A lot of people don't think about it, but the Bible has every horror element that you can imagine. It's got the devil, the Antichrist, Lucifer, and Satan - which are four different characters. It's got the end of the world. You've got zombies, giants, demon possession, a lot of murder.

Topics: Character, Thinking, People

I traveled into the future to get back in time.

Topics: Back In Time, Traveled, Get Back

I believe nothing happens by accident. My fame has happened for a reason. My fans are my kindred spirits in revolution. If anyone chooses to ignore the message or the messenger, they do so at their own risk. Believe it or not, there are many more people out there that understand what I am trying to do than society wants to admit. The way I live my life represents a much bigger part of America than anyone would care to imagine

Topics: Believe, America, People, Kindred Spirit

Occasionally, something will happen that will change your opinion of someone irrevocably, that will shatter the ideal you've built up around a person and force you to see them for the fallible and human creature that they really are.

source: - Marilyn Manson, Neil Strauss (2012). “The Long Hard Road Out of Hell”, p.21, Harper Collins

Topics: Opinion, Force, Humans

I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.

source: - "This much I know: Marilyn Manson". Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2012.

Topics: Jealousy, Struggle, Independent

I put a mustache and some eyebrows on, and I looked just like Nicolas Cage. ... We have the same amazingly handsome good looks.

Topics: Eyebrows, Mustache, Looks

I care about the people I know and love the most, but I also care about what the people I don't know think in the sense that I want them to think and understand me in a certain way. I don't base my life around either one, and I don't change the way I live to please either set of people, but I do care.

Topics: Thinking, People, And Love, I Do Care

My first dissatisfaction has always been with religion.

Topics: Firsts, Dissatisfaction

Multiply your death, divide by sex, add up your violence, what do you get?

Topics: Sex, Reality, Add

You might find me outside with a can of hair spray, spraying it with the hope that the sun will burn a hole in the Earth. Another part of me hopes people will grow up and evolve and get smarter. That's the paradox of Marilyn Manson.

source: - "A Dangerous Man? Marilyn Manson Says He’s Become His Own Nightmares". Interview with Dan Aquilante, nypost.com. November 17, 2000.

Topics: Growing Up, Hair, People, Manson, Spray

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.

source: - "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: People, Laughing, Want

Good and evil go hand in hand, you can't seperate them.

source: - "Marilyn Manson is back. Call an exorcist!" by Neil Spencer, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2000.

Topics: Hands, Evil, Good And Evil

I wanna die young and sell my soul, use up all your drugs and make me come.

Topics: Evil, Drug, Soul

I'd seen the Led Zeppelin reunion and I've never been such a huge Led Zeppelin fan as much as the Doors or Beatles. I went and saw the reunion and watching them play "Stairway to Heaven," it was very breathtaking for one reason mostly. I can imagine these two guys looking at each other, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page. Not to compare us to Led Zeppelin, but I did miss the fact that I could look over at the guy, Twiggy Ramirez, that wrote "The Beautiful People" and "Dope Show." Emotionally, it's taken a long time to repair that.

source: - Source: archive.azcentral.com

Topics: Beautiful, Taken, Dope, Breathtaking, Stairway To Heaven

All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you're made to feel guilty for being human, then you're going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can't escape from.

source: - Beliefnet Interview, www.beliefnet.com. 2001.

Topics: Nature, Regret, Hate, Deadly Sins, Seven Deadly Sins

I think people have to take responsibility for their own actions.

Topics: Responsibility, Thinking, People

I'm thinking about entering a Marilyn Manson costume contest to see if I lose.

Topics: Thinking, Entering, Costumes

Not only are love and hate such closely related emotions, but it's a lot easier to hate someone you've cared about than someone you never have.

Topics: Hate, Emotion, Easier, Love And Hate

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.

Topics: Media, Alarms, Way, Coma, Snaps

If you really feel hatred for someone, and kind of send it their way, then it’s out of your system and in their hands. I always think it’s therapeutic.

Topics: Thinking, Hands, Hatred

I speak in reality. I don't try to hide anything from anybody, and that's the most dangerous thing about our music that parents are so afraid of.

Topics: Reality, Parent, Trying, Dangerous Things

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

source: - "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Fake People, Real, Lying, Manson, Real You

If someone listens to our music, and it makes them creative, that makes me happier than anything.

source: - huH Magazine, October 10, 1996.

Topics: Creative, Ifs

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.

Topics: People, Want, Ends, Wanting More

Do not seek death, seek destruction.

source: - Song: Running to the Edge of the World, 2009

Topics: Destruction

I don't try to be bad as much as I just am by nature.

Topics: Trying

Strangely enough a lot of my ideals are christian in a sense but I don't like the way that religion is portrayed in America but, I think, the album "Antichrist Superstar" really expresses, when you look at the lyrics it expresses, how I feel. I mean it's based in individuality and, strength and believe in yourself, believe in, you're your own god.

source: - Source: www.mansonwiki.com

Topics: Christian, Believe, Mean

Marilyn is real. I wake up and I am Marilyn.

Topics: Real, Wake Up

I am the pedophiles dream, a messianic Peter Pan.

source: - Song: Snake Eyes and Sissies

Topics: Dream, Games, Nursery

Christians are a lot like dinosaurs - about to become extinct.

Topics: Christian, Dinosaurs, Rock N Roll

I fall in love very easily.

source: - "This much I know: Marilyn Manson". Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2012.

Topics: Falling In Love, Fall, I Fall In Love

The time that people aren't expecting what's going to happen, I find that's the best time to really cause the damage that needs to be done.

Topics: Damage Is Done, People, Needs

I'm a controversial artist, one who dares to have an opinion and bothers to create music and videos that challenge people's ideas in a world that is watered-down and hollow. In my work I examine the America we live in, and I've always tried to show people that the devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. So don't expect the end of the world to come one day out of the blue – it's been happening every day for a long time.

Topics: Artist, Ideas, America

God will grovel before me, God will crawl at my feet.

Topics: Feet, Egotism, Gods Will

It wouldn't even make you gay if you had sex with Johnny Depp, 'cause it's Johnny Depp.

Topics: Sex, Gay, Causes

I decided to make music again at a time when I couldn't have had more obstacles.

Topics: Obstacles, Decided

Nothing's gonna change the world, nothing's gonna change the world. There was Lennon and a happy gun, there were words on the pavement.

Topics: Gun, World, Pavement

I can't go to sleep at night if I didn't accomplish at least something. That's the one thing that keeps me up.

Topics: Sleep, Night, Accomplish

When I was a kid I think the thing I remembered most about The Exorcist was Linda Blair being possessed by the devil, and how scary that was. It had a lot of parallels for me because the movie was challenging different ideas about faith and it was looking at religion in a darker way. Growing up I was afraid of being possessed by the devil, as an adult I'm afraid of being possessed by the world, by ignorance, and not holding on to my beliefs and what I feel strongly about.

Topics: Growing Up, Ignorance, Kids, Different Ideas, Exorcist

God is just a statistics.

source: - Song: Post Human, Album: Mechanical Animals, 2006

Topics: Doubt, Atheism, Statistics

The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.

Topics: Differences, Personality, Sense Of Humor, Manson

I'm someone who is open-minded to new experiences because they teach you new things.

Topics: New Experiences, Open Minded, Teach

There's days when I'd love everybody to relize that things have gone too far, and we need to be born again...but there are other days when I think the world deserves to be destroyed. Why should I help anybody? Everybody's stepped on me my whole life.

Topics: Thinking, Needs, Gone

When someone was willing to drown with me, I really didn't want to drown anymore.

Topics: Want, Willing

I'm everything they are afraid of. Everything they hate. Everything they try to hide and a lot more. Besides, I speak my mind and show people what's out there in reality.

Topics: Hate, Reality, People

There's nothing that anyone could say about me that would hurt my feelings.

source: - "Freak or unique?". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2003.

Topics: Hurt, Feelings, Hurt My Feelings

Yes, I'm reckless and sometime express no concern for my own well being, and I express a misanthropic view of the world, but to have an opinion, you can't be a nihilist.

Topics: Views, World, Opinion, Misanthropic, Nihilist

I've never written songs about relationships. I've written songs about how I feel. The songs are more about me, than another person. That's the way I like to look at it.

source: - Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. April 3, 2015.

Topics: Song, Looks, Way

If we're bringing up kids that are so stupid that they kill themselves because of a song, what good are the kids in the first place ?

Topics: Death, Suicide, Song

I read all the great philosophers but most people just hear what they want to hear and it makes it easy for them to brand us devil worshippers.

Topics: People, Devil, Want, Worshippers, Great Philosophers

Johnny Depp is like a brother to me. We have matching tattoos on our backs - Charles Baudelaire, the flowers of evil, this giant skeleton thing. It's kind of a secret. People say to us, 'Why did you get that?' And we say, 'No reason.'

source: - "This much I know: Marilyn Manson". Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2012.

Topics: Tattoo, Brother, Flower, Baudelaire

If you dont educate your kids... I will.

Topics: Kids, Educate, Ifs

I was very apprehensive, mostly because I didn’t want to get caught. By now, I had begun to feel removed from the everyday world of morality. Guilt had become more a fear of getting caught than any sense of right or wrong.

Topics: Everyday, Guilt, World

For me, the key to longevity - and immortality, in a sense - has to do with transformation.

Topics: Keys, Transformation, Immortality

That becomes the revolution, to be idealistic enough that you think you can change the world, and what you find is you can't change anything but yourself.

Topics: Thinking, World, Revolution, Idealistic

And that's the type of thing I'm trying to speak out against the most, religion controlling what we see and what we do in our personal lives, even if you're not a part of that religion. Antichrist Superstar[the album] is a challenge really, to traditional morality and it's...to make people question that and make people think about different perspectives.

Topics: Thinking, Speaks Out, People, Antichrist

I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.

Topics: Smart, Stupid, People

It's not like I turn off Marilyn Manson and I'm an everyday guy who goes and has another job and doesn't think about any of this stuff. Marilyn Manson is the most real thing that can come from me.

Topics: Jobs, Real, Thinking

Sometimes hate is not enough to turn this all to ashes, together as one and against all others, break all of their wings to make sure it crashes.

Topics: Hate, Wings, Together, Together As One

Let the ugly light of the world in, we are no longer blind.

source: - Song: A Place In The Dirt, 2000

Topics: Light, Evil, World, Light Of The World

I think confidence is the most appealing quality in any human being or any artist; that's what really attracts us to people.

Topics: Artist, Thinking, People