Quotes By Marilyn Manson

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.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

It's my job to be the Pierrot, the clown, in the theatrical sense.

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

The word 'Antichrist', to me, is the collective disbelief in god.

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

My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism.

Are people raised to be villains or vilified like I have become?

My goal isn't to make money, it's to try and survive and make a point.

Everything is acting.

To me, Satan ultimately represents rebellion.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

I don't encourage people to choose any sort of sexuality.

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.

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

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

The point is that life for me is not going to be the way it is for everyone else. I have a fog machine and movie lights in my bedroom.

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.

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

If one more 'journalist' makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally or with my fans' help, greet them at their home and discover just how much they believe in their freedom of speech.

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.

People only hate what they see in themselves.

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

I don't want to feel like I've matured. That's a stupid word that I never want to use.

Marilyn Manson is a mockery of American pop culture.

Things have become devalued to the point where people don't realize the repercussions, that they're devaluing themselves. It could end up bringing about chaos, a lawless situation.

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

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

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.

Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?