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.
Marilyn MansonIf you die and enough people are watching, then you become a martyr, you become a hero, you become well-known.
Marilyn MansonPart of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.
Marilyn MansonI believe in dreams. I believe that every night on the planet everything that is, was and can be is dreamt. I believe that what happens in dreams is no different no less important than what happens in the waking world. I believe that dreams are the closest equvalent present-day mankind has to trime travel.
Marilyn MansonI've always had a desire to be provocative and to make people think, but it wouldn't be any challenge for me just to be shocking. That is where it begins for me, not where it stops. And I could be much more shocking. I think I've adopted a sense of subtlety. I don't sit around wondering how I can make myself even stranger to the world. I've simply evolved into the monster I created, and I'm quite happy with it.
Marilyn MansonIf people really stopped and realized how much art and creative people move the world versus politics and religion, I mean itโs not even up for debate. An artist at least creates things, puts things into the world. Where as these other people are destroying things, taking things out of the world.
Marilyn Manson