Quotes By Marilyn Manson

Ultimately, because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic.

Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.'

Sometimes you feel awkward being what you're best at, you feel like you have to be something new.

I dare you all to write one more thing that you won't say to my face.

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

I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.

The time that people aren't expecting what's going to happen, I find that's the best time to really cause the damage that needs to be done.

Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.

A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.

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

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.

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

Everything is acting.

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

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.

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

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

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.