Marilyn Manson Quotes

Living in Hollywood, it's easy to have someone flatter you. That doesn't help me.

The person who thinks I worship the devil and kill animals is just as important as someone who makes an interpretation that's closer to what I intended.

In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics.

When you grow up in America things like Christianity waters down your feeling... When you're taught to love everybody, taught to love you're enemies, what value does that put on love?

I went to one AA meeting and I got asked for an autograph.

He's just simply John5 because he's the fifth person that we've hired. In the future, everyone will have numbers instead of names

I've been able to watch and to weather a lot of different periods in entertainment, politics and life.

I've never treated anyone in my band like they're not on the same level as me. I'm not that kind of person.

If I think I weigh too much, I'll lose weight; if my hair looks stupid, I'll cut it. I guess I'm my harshest critic. I'm not easily satisfied.

There's a certain group of people who are always going to dislike me and disagree with whatever I say.

I realized that I started writing songs to make people feel how I felt, rather than just making them feel something. That's not the way I should do things.

I used to have nightmares about the Antichrist - what would happen, where it would come from, and who it would be.

I like to be unhinged; I like to be unpredictable. I like to make people worry that worse things can happen whenever I go out to a restaurant or act in a movie.

You can find inspiration for man's behaviour wherever you look.

If you're gonna pretend to be something, then you have to at least live up to what it is.

Rumors, stories... I'm used to them. I got my ribs removed, I was on 'The Wonder Years'... You know there's a different story every day.

These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way.

For me, art is supposed to be a question mark.

There's just no great rock albums anymore. There's a lot of rock music out there, but it's very bland and disposable.

If you lose who you are, what do you have?

Comedians have a huge carte blanche and the ability to get away with saying a lot of things.

Marilyn Manson is simply too dangerous for Darien Lake.

Music critics get their records for free so their opinions usually don't matter.

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.

Nowhere in the Gospels is intelligence praised as a virtue.

I'm not going to be some kind of PC, tree-hugger.

As a kid I just felt like an outsider.

Stop praying. Start thinking.

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes.

I don't know which me that I love, got no reflection.

The most that I can learn is in records that you burn.

Art is the free expression of the artist and they tried to stop us from expressing ourselves, our art.

I always had the desire to entertain people, whether it was to make 'em laugh or to scare 'em or stir things up just to cause problems.

I never wanted it to end this way, but flies will lay their eggs.

The boy that you loved is the man that you fear.

The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.

One hates what one fears.

Everything I was afraid of when I was growing up, I've become. I've taken on my nightmares, like the devil and the end of the world, and I've become those things.

If everyone can make music. Make better music.

As far as the performance goes, I want to create an atmosphere, and use 5.1 sound and imagery and shape and form to transform the stage from one thing to another, as if you're watching a movie.

Why should we believe in a god, that doesnt believe in us?

The idea of Marilyn Manson has been brewing in my head, one form or another, since I was about 12 years old at a Christian high school in Canton, Ohio.

Use the negativity with a space bar. Don't be Empty Trash. @#&$¥£€%*+=[<>] .

My desire is to be pure again and not dirtied by the world. But it's my duty to be as ugly and as filthy as I am, so the audience can experience what I have.

I don't need to drive. I have no business driving. I would never be able to find my keys.

Fear is something I instill in other people, mostly young girls.

The hero is never the star of the story.

I eat innocent meat, the house wife I will beat, the prolife I will kill. What you won't do, I will.

I hate therefore I am...