Marilyn Manson Quotes

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.

I get shocked by people smoking cigarettes sometimes. i get shocked by watching talk shows. people's moralities are so far below what i would consider standard.

I`m not a slave to a god that doesn`t exist.

My pain's not ashamed to repeat itself

A lot of people don't think about it, but the Bible has every horror element that you can imagine. It's got the devil, the Antichrist, Lucifer, and Satan - which are four different characters. It's got the end of the world. You've got zombies, giants, demon possession, a lot of murder.

I eat innocent meat, the house wife I will beat, the prolife I will kill. What you won't do, I will.

I am truly amazed that after all this time, religious groups still need to attack entertainment and use these tragedies as a pitiful excuse for their own self-serving publicity. In response to their protests, I will provide a show where I balance my songs with a wholesome Bible reading. This way, fans will not only hear my so-called, violent point of view, but we can also examine the virtues of wonderful 'Christian' stories of disease, murder, adultery, suicide and child sacrifice. Now that seems like 'entertainment' to me.

In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary.

Sell your soul to yourself. You'll make more money.

In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it.

This is the culture you're raising your kids in. Don't be surprised if it blows up in your face.

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

I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference.

Christians are a lot like dinosaurs - about to become extinct.

Paintings are seldom guilty and often framed for crimes they did not commit. Some cover holes-holes in walls, holes in lives. Some make holes-in wallets, holes in hearts...in negative space.

I decided to make music again at a time when I couldn't have had more obstacles.

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

It's better to use a curse word than to hurt somebody else, I find.

I'm a controversial artist, one who dares to have an opinion and bothers to create music and videos that challenge people's ideas in a world that is watered-down and hollow. In my work I examine the America we live in, and I've always tried to show people that the devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. So don't expect the end of the world to come one day out of the blue – it's been happening every day for a long time.

Use the negativity with a space bar. Don't be Empty Trash. @#&$¥£€%*+=[<>] .

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

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.

As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I'm still not comfortable, but that's why I change and adapt the way I look.

If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.

Watching movies is my one distraction.

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

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

I can't sleep without the TV on. It doesn't matter where it is. I don't like silence. My ears ring from loud music.

It's always about being yourself and not being ashamed of being different or thinking different.

Marilyn Manson is a mockery of American pop culture.

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

I believe that you are not stuck with a pre-destiny. I believe that there is ways to see all these things that are laid down in front of you and where you belong and to smack yourself in the face when you realize that you've strayed off your path and get back to where your path is.

The most outragous thing that I could imagine ever doing is putting on a pair of jeans and going to the shopping mall for my lunch

I didn't go to guitar school and I don't know how to play chords, but I can do it in my own way and I think sometimes that will piss off some guitar players who sit around playing their stuff all day long and then there are people who like that.

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

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

I never wanted it to end this way, but flies will lay their eggs.

I don't want to have a gravestone. I want to have all my friends burn me and then snort the ashes. I think that's the only way to go out.

I'm not a believer of the "perfect world" TV tries to feed us.

All the drugs in the world won't save us from ourselves.

Nothing's gonna change the world, nothing's gonna change the world. There was Lennon and a happy gun, there were words on the pavement.

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.

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.

So anybody with any bit of intelligence has got to be pissed off because if they see how things are in the world they're not going to be happy with it.

I'm a teen distortion, survived abortion.

Anything can be misinterpreted. People can look at Christ on a cross and think, This is an image of murder, this is violent, this has sexual imagery in it. And it just - I think it's my job as an artist to be out there pushing people's buttons and making them question everything.

My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially because they didn't have a job that gave them a pension.

I think people have to take responsibility for their own actions.