Quotes By Marilyn Manson

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.

Music is the strongest form of magic.

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

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?

Everything is acting.

To me, Satan ultimately represents rebellion.

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.

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.

When I finish a picture I don't show it to anyone if I feel it's not good enough yet. I've learnt to listen to my partners and my friends. For me it's the biggest success if they like it.

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.

What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.

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.

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.

The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.

Marriage changes everything.

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

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

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

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.'

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.