Marilyn Manson Quotes

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

everybody has a light and a dark side, and neither can exist without the other. ~ Marilyn Manson

But through years of myth-making and fear-sowing, Christianity meta-morphosed antichrists into a single Antichrist, an apocalyptic villain and Christian bogeyman used to scare people as much as Santa Claus is used to regulate children's behavior. After years of studying the concept, I began to realize the Antichrist is a character--a metaphor--who exists in nearly all religions under different names, and maybe there is some truth in it, a need for such a person. But from another perspective, this person could be seen as not a villain but a final hero to save people from their own ignorance. The apocalypse doesn't have to be fire and a brimstone. It could happen on a personal level. ~ Marilyn Manson

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. ~ Marilyn Manson

We're approaching things quite differently this time, but it will still sound like Marilyn Manson. ~ Daisy Berkowitz

We will no longer be oppressed by the fascism called Christianity. We will no longer be oppressed by the mentality of the police state. ~ Marilyn Manson

Marilyn Manson is simply too dangerous for Darien Lake. ~ Marilyn Manson

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

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. ~ Marilyn Manson

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. ~ Marilyn Manson

Most of the world's problems could be avoided if people just said what they fucking meant. ~ Marilyn Manson

Without the threat of death there's no reason to live. ~ Marilyn Manson

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? ~ Marilyn Manson

I'd like to make over Marilyn Manson and just dress him really normally to see what he looks like. That'd be really weird! ~ Karen Gillan

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

I'm just here for the narcotics. ~ Marilyn Manson

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

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

People are very surprised to hear me say that a lot of my values are Christian values. I think that's part of my shock. I just don't like the way that Christianity combined with the influence of television has bred a nation of weakness. (Christian television do get the facts wrong sometimes and the image they portray turns most people off.) ~ Marilyn Manson

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

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

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 ~ Marilyn Manson

If you act like a rock star you will be treated like one. ~ Marilyn Manson

It's my job to be the Pierrot, the clown, in the theatrical sense. ~ Marilyn Manson

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. ~ Marilyn Manson

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

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

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. ~ Marilyn Manson

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. ~ Marilyn Manson

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. ~ Marilyn Manson

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

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

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

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

Deep down, most adults hate people who go against the grain. ~ Marilyn Manson

Nowhere in the Gospels is intelligence praised as a virtue. ~ Marilyn Manson

Marilyn Manson is a mockery of American pop culture. ~ Marilyn Manson

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

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

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. ~ Marilyn Manson

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. ~ Marilyn Manson

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

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. ~ Marilyn Manson

America puts killers on the cover of 'TIME' magazine, giving them as much notoriety as our favorite movie stars. ~ Marilyn Manson

Art gives people a reason to be alive. ~ Marilyn Manson

Sometimes you feel awkward being what you're best at, you feel like you have to be something new. ~ Marilyn Manson

Be like you and make a difference. ~ Marilyn Manson

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

My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama's boy. ~ Marilyn Manson

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

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 ~ Marilyn Manson

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

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. ~ Marilyn Manson

What happens someday if more people own my record than the bible? That will make me god because a lot more people believe in me than him? Because it's just about popularity. There are plenty of people in the world how have never heard of Jesus, while America takes him for granted. ~ Marilyn Manson

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.' ~ Marilyn Manson

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

Your beautiful don't let anyone tell you different ~ Marilyn Manson

I chose not to jump into the media frenzy and defend myself, though I was begged to be on every single TV show in existence. They want to blame entertainment? Isn't religion the first real entertainment? People dress up in costumes, sing songs and dedicate themselves in eternal fandom. ~ Marilyn Manson

To me, anything that is a church is really just far too close minded. ~ Marilyn Manson

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

If I hadn't gone to a private Christian school, I'd never have built up enough animosity to want to have started a band. And now that I have one, the fact that they are giving me such resistance and publicity, they have made me far bigger than they'd ever have wanted me to have become. So I guess in a strange way the Christians have influenced me the most. ~ Marilyn Manson

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!' ~ Marilyn Manson

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. ~ Marilyn Manson

I think that's all a form of wanting to let go, of wanting to get out ... It's not something easily described or understood. ~ Marilyn Manson

Better pray for hell, not hallelujah. ~ Marilyn Manson

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

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

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. ~ Marilyn Manson

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. ~ Marilyn Manson

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

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. ~ Marilyn Manson

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 ~ Marilyn Manson

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. ~ Marilyn Manson

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

The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects of shaping our personalities and humanity. ~ Marilyn Manson

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

My pain's not ashamed to repeat itself ~ Marilyn Manson

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. ~ Marilyn Manson

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

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 ~ Marilyn Manson

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

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." ~ Marilyn Manson

I'm kind of shy, and I think that I take that out by performing in front of a lot of people. That's how I get out my shyness. ~ Marilyn Manson

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 ~ Marilyn Manson

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

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

I've said a million times that if more stupid people killed themselves over stupid songs, there would be less stupid people in the world. ~ Marilyn Manson

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. ~ Marilyn Manson

You'll understand when I'm dead. ~ Marilyn Manson

The seeds of who I am now had been planted. "Fools aren't born," I wrote in my notebook one day during ethics class. "They are watered and grown like weeds by institutions such as Christianity." ~ Marilyn Manson

I hate normal studios, because you have to say "hi" to the person at the front desk. And then you go into the studio, and there's a second engineer in there that you don't know, and then you're stuck in a glass box with someone talking to you through a walkie-talkie. ~ Marilyn Manson

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

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. ~ Marilyn Manson

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

The crack inside your fucking heart is me. ~ Marilyn Manson

My grandfather had been the ugliest, darkest, foulest, most depraved figure of my childhood, more beast than human, and I had grown up to be him, locked in the basement with my secrets as the rest of the family reveled in the petty and ordinary upstairs. Down there, I saw my black, ancient, ineluctable core exposed, like a crab forced out of its shell--dirty, vulnerable, and obscene. For the first time in my life, I was truly alone. ~ Marilyn Manson

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. ~ Marilyn Manson

[ ... ] morals are worn as a badge to make you look good and [ ... ] it's so much easier to talk about your beliefs than to live up to them ~ Marilyn Manson

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. ~ Marilyn Manson

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