Marilyn Manson is a criticism of gimmickry, while being itself a gimmick.

Marilyn Manson is a mockery of American pop culture.

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

When I was a kid I really didn't have my own opinions and then sort of transformed into this angel which is really Marilyn Manson and then the final stage is Antichrist Superstar which is the more nihilistic, totalitarian element in everybody's personality, that, is a real struggle on the album and in my life, between that power.

All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you're made to feel guilty for being human, then you're going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can't escape from.

Find what you are afraid of, face it, and then you won't be afraid of it anymore.

If every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes off of your life, every game of Dungeons & Dragons you play delays the loss of your virginity by seven hours.