Marilyn Manson Quotes

People alway ask me what advantages fame has started to bring; there are always plenty of free drinks, but other times people wanna put stuff into your drink to kill you off. Their gonna have to try a lot harder if they want to get me.

Everybody's someone else's nigger
I know you are so am I
I wasn't born with enough middle fingers
I don't need to chose a side

To me, Columbine is just as awful as Vietnam, and it's just as awful as anything else.

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.

If a kid is old enough to drive a car or buy a gun, isn't he old enough to be held personally responsible for what he does with his car or gun? Or if he's a teenager, should someone else be blamed because he isn't as enlightened as an eighteen-year-old?

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

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

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.

Art gives people a reason to be alive.

Most of the time, I wasn't interested in inflicting pain on myself and others unless it was in a way that would make people think about the way they act, the society they live in or the things they take for granted.

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.

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.

Marilyn Manson is a mockery of American pop culture.

Seance to renaissance. So it begins

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

This isn't a mob, won't need to change the names. Everyone around you has murdered someone, something sacred. There isn't one nail without dirt under it. There isn't any white cotton panties that aren't soaked and stained red. It's better to push something when it's slipping, than to risk being dragged down.

Gradually, I began to resent Christian school and doubt everything I was told. It became clear that the suffering they were praying to be released from was a suffering they had imposed on themselves - and now us. The beast they lived in fear of was really themselves: It was man, not some mythological demon, that was going to destroy man in the end. And this beast had been created out of their fear.

You'll understand when I'm dead.

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

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

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.

Books are good because they are thick and you can hit someone with it.

Stop praying. Start thinking.

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

I never said to be like me, I say be yourself and make a difference.

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

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

I fall in love very easily.

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

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.

Be like you and make a difference.

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

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

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

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

But what's real? You can't find the truth. You just pick the lie you like best. As long as you know that everything's a lie, you can't hurt yourself.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Antichrist Superstar is also about me wanting to grow up and be something that people would adore ... instead I grew up and became something that people hated.

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

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.

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.

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.

The apocalypse doesn't have to be fire and brimstone. It could happen on a personal level. If you believe you're the center of your own universe and you want to see the universe destroyed, it only takes one bullet.

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

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.

This is the culture your raising your kids in, don't be suprised when it blows up in your face.

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

People don't keep journals for themselves. They keep them for other people, like a secret they don't want to tell but they want everyone to know.

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.

I'm completely unlike a lot of other performers in the past who have been forgiven or come to terms with the real world because they tell everyone their performance is 'just a show.' And so, people say, 'Oh, it's OK then. We don't care. He's not really a bad person.' It's not just a show for me. It's my life.

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

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

I wasn't born with enough middle fingers.

Your beautiful don't let anyone tell you different

All of my heroes, like Dali, are people who pioneered various forms of cinema.

I think every man and woman is a star. It's just a matter of realizing and becoming it. It's all a matter of willpower. The world is just how you see it. If you want to have other people tell you how to see it, then you can. But if you want to look at it differently, then it's limitless what you can do. That's why I don't feel the need to be one person. I can be as many people as I like.

I just don't like when there's a rumor that says I'm dating someone who is below my standards. But when I got divorced, my ex-wife said I was spending all my time with Lindsay Lohan and Angelina Jolie. I was like, 'Thank you for the big ups!'

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

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

Music is the strongest form of magic.

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 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.

If everyone can make music. Make better music.

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

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

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.

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.'

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

The fact that nobody liked me at school began to fade out of my mind like blue magic marker reminders scrawled on the back of a greasy fist." greasy fist." - Marilyn Manson

Man's greatest fear is chaos.

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

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.

The idea of heaven is Christianity's way of creating a hell on earth.

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.

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.

I'm not a role model. I'm a role villain.

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

There's a lot of great stories and a lot of great values in the Holy Bible, and I actually relate to a lot of them. The character, the idea, or the part of my personality that I describe as Antichrist Superstar, is a lot like Lucifer in the Bible. Someone who was kicked out of heaven because he wanted to be God

I don't like fun, it upsets me.

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

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

I wanna outrace the speed of pain.

Things like, people saying the new album would debut at number one on the Billboard Charts in the U.S. and I said, "No it's gonna be number Three." Because Number 3 is a very powerful number on the album. It's repeated quite often. Then it did chart an Number 3. Was it a coincidence you decide. If your in touch with your subconscious, you can really use it to your advantage

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.

One hates what one fears.

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

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

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

Mechanical Animals for me documents the repair of my emotions, the repair of my soul, and this record does deal with God in a different way. It deals with me finding God in art, and in music. I think there's more spirituality in art than you could find in a church

I'm just here for the narcotics.