Marilyn Manson Quotes

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.

I'm absolutely not looking for someone who agrees with me about everything or someone who wants to please me by believing what I believe.

Looking back, the only person that really surprised me was Chris Vrenna only because I've known him since 1992, and for him not to be able to say it to my face, "Hey, I don't want to do this anymore." Instead, he said "I'll see you tomorrow" and then he never came back. I find that strange. I don't know if he is afraid of me or thinks I'm going to beat him over the head with something. I'm not like that.

As a kid I just felt like an outsider.

It isn’t hard to find a person whom I could fall in love with, to give her romance. But it’s hard to find such a person who would understand your view on life, accept who you really are and would truly care for you.

I still get excited performing live. When you see the immediate reaction from a crowd, its like being a theater performer, its something you can't get from being a writer or being an ad man ... its almost ritualistic.

I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.

Occasionally, something will happen that will change your opinion of someone irrevocably, that will shatter the ideal you've built up around a person and force you to see them for the fallible and human creature that they really are.

Videos have to go hand in hand with your music, so that's why, ultimately, they should be created by the artist. And if they're not, it doesn't really add up to me.

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 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.

I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me.

Enjoy your faults, that's what separates you from the rest of the world.

That becomes the revolution, to be idealistic enough that you think you can change the world, and what you find is you can't change anything but yourself.

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.

My dream of an apocalypse that was the Antichrist Superstar has unfolded. I could see that they only looked and acted like humans, but they had lost their souls, they were Mechanical Animals

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.

I fall in love very easily.

From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes.

Don't ever empty the bucket of mystery. Never let people define what you do. It's not about zigging when you should zag. It's not about doing something unprecedented and unpredictable. It's just about never being a word, or something that is not in the process of transformation...

I'm not afraid to express the different elements of my personality, and I think there's a bad habit in America now to, label people having multiple personalities, things like this, but it's, I feel like, even on the album I describe myself as a hydra which is, many heads, many different personalities.I don't think you need to be one specific person when you can be many.

My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you've got the ability to believe.

I did have a Huggy Beardoll. One of his legs fell off. That empty leg became a place where, when we were doing a lot of drugs on tour at one point, we would store the drugs in his empty leg. That's where the term 'dancing with the one-legged man' on Smells Like Children came from, because whenever anyone was doing drugs we called it the 'dance of the one-legged man.' That became a ritualistic thing that was funny for awhile.

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.

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

I can't go to sleep at night if I didn't accomplish at least something. That's the one thing that keeps me up.

Your beautiful don't let anyone tell you different

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

I'm not going to be some kind of PC, tree-hugger.

I don't care if your world is ending today because I wasn't invited to it anyway.

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.

I have something that makes me happy on some level and this is a good way for me to deal with the torment of that teenage life gave me

I'm so famous, people expect me to sell as many records as Celine Dion or Puff Daddy.

I've never treated anyone in my band like they're not on the same level as me. I'm not that kind of person.

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.

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

I went to one AA meeting and I got asked for an autograph.

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.

Do not seek death, seek destruction.

I'm thinking about entering a Marilyn Manson costume contest to see if I lose.

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

I feel like I've dreamed half of my life that hasn't happened yet, so a lot of times I'm going along, and I do stuff, and I know that I've done it. I have deja vus more than I have regular experiences. If half of your day is a deja vu, then you start to wonder, 'What is real and what isn't?'

Having an avatar doesn't give you an identity, and having a persona online doesn't make you a personality either.

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

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

It wouldn't even make you gay if you had sex with Johnny Depp, 'cause it's Johnny Depp.

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

Let's just kill everyone and let God sort them out.