Marilyn Manson Quotes

The Internet is the trailer park for the soul.

Things have become devalued to the point where people don't realize the repercussions, that they're devaluing themselves. It could end up bringing about chaos, a lawless situation.

I can't sleep without the TV on. It doesn't matter where it is. I don't like silence. My ears ring from loud music.

Apart from a very close circle of friends, few people know my true self, and it's normal, I never put it into my music.

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

I'm so famous, people expect me to sell as many records as Celine Dion or Puff Daddy.

Watching movies is my one distraction.

I haven't looked at marriage in the conventional sense, as far as settling down. I look at it as putting faith in another person, which has always been hard for me to do.

I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.

Art gives people a reason to be alive.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I have something that makes me happy on some level and this is a good way for me to deal with the torment of that teenage life gave me

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

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.

I can't turn off the way I think, and that's essentially who I am, who anybody is.

My pain's not ashamed to repeat itself

I think everybody's got a presentation. Everybody looks a certain way because they want to convey a certain image. You look a certain way because you want people to listen to you in a certain way.

I believe a lot about psychology, or I'd like to learn about it - I'm someone who likes to learn about everything.

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.

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

I am the pedophiles dream, a messianic Peter Pan.

I like Kylie Minogue sometimes - I like a lot of unusual stuff... I don't know - I like Justin Timberlake over Lady GaGa, just musically.

A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.

I was a pizza-delivery boy at the Pizza Oven in Canton. I wanted to get fired so bad, I actually wrecked the delivery car, but they wouldn't fire me. I was the only person they had working there.

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 wanna outrace the speed of pain.

Kids need to start thinking for themselves. Not to be like their friends that think they're individuals. I don't want you to be like us, I want you to be like you.

I don't think I have ever tried to create things to encourage people to hurt others, or themselves.

Anyone I may have used should feel happy that they even had a use. It's better than being useless.

When I finish a picture I don't show it to anyone if I feel it's not good enough yet. I've learnt to listen to my partners and my friends. For me it's the biggest success if they like it.

The first time I performed musically, I threw up.

It says right here you've got to be saved to go to heaven. But the way I see it, you've only got to be yourself to go to hell.

There are definitely Dark Forces out there that none of us fully understand. People fear what they don't understand, and lash out against it

Thinking for yourself - that's scarier than any devil image.

Rock n roll is about drugs.

I was always trying to do different things to entertain people. And at the same time, I think, I was, whether subconsciously or not, trying to get kicked out of school because I hated it so much.

The record is about seeing death and growing from it, and in the end, being strong and being alive.

I'm a teen distortion, survived abortion.

Actors always want to be musicians, and musicians want to be actors

When you get to heaven, you will wish you were in hell.

Paintings are seldom guilty and often framed for crimes they did not commit. Some cover holes-holes in walls, holes in lives. Some make holes-in wallets, holes in hearts...in negative space.

I walked away exhilarated by my success, because there's nothing like making a difference in someone's life, even if that difference is a lifetime of nightmares and a fortune in therapy bills.

I don't encourage people to choose any sort of sexuality.

My goal isn't to make money, it's to try and survive and make a point.

This question is posed to mayself, am I a man who thinks he's an angel? Or an angel who thinks he's a man?

I'm my most creative between 3 and 5 a.m. That's the way I've always been