Marilyn Manson Quotes

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

I dare you all to write one more thing that you won't say to my face. Because I will make you say it. In that manner. That is a threat.

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

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

Man's greatest fear is chaos.

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

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.

What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.

Ultimately, because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic.

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

The Internet is a very powerful tool, but right now it's being handled by a lot of fools. And I think us together, Marilyn Manson as a whole, what we all stand for, should be the biggest spider on the web. I think that it will become our web. Not something that uses us, but something that we will control

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed.

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 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.

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.

When I was stalking my special lady friend on MySpace, people would always say, 'Is this really Marilyn Manson or some kind of psycho?' And I'm like, 'Both'

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Stop praying. Start thinking.

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

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.

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.

I've known Johnny Depp since I was 19.

Marilyn Manson has always been intended to confuse some, anger some and make some people feel at home. There's no way to misunderstand what I do - but everyone can understand it differently. That's the only way I've learned to embrace art - it has to be a question mark, not an answer.

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.

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

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

Films and things like that are really my first love and, so when we get to make videos it's just as important as the song. To me it's not a commercial, for me it's a whole work of art on it's own so, we plan on working on a movie and things like that in the future so.

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

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

In the end we're all Jerry Springer Show guests, really, we just haven't been on the show.

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.

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

People hate to describe their music. What we have come to call it is "beat up your mom" music. As far as describing what it sounds like, I guess you'd have to listen.

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

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

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