Quotes by Marilyn Manson

The most valuable thing [Anton LaVey] did that day was to help me understand and come to terms with the deadness, hardness and apathy I was feeling about myself and the world around me, explaining that it was all necessary, a middle step in an evolution from an innocent child to an intelligent, powerful being capable of making a mark on the world.

Is adult amusement killing our children, or is killing our children amusing adults?

If you act like a rock star you will be treated like one.

I knew that I was supposed to respond with some kind of mannered phrase that ended with hail Satan, but I couldnt bring myself to do so. It seemed too empty and ritualistic, like wearing a uniform in a Christian school.

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

If Satan wasnt around, churches would go out of business.

You might find me outside with a can of hair spray, spraying it with the hope that the sun will burn a hole in the Earth. Another part of me hopes people will grow up and evolve and get smarter. Thats the paradox of Marilyn Manson.

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

The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.

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

All the seven deadly sins are mans true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if youre made to feel guilty for being human, then youre going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you cant escape from.

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 first dissatisfaction has always been with religion.

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

Mans greatest fear is chaos.

When you want to die, you at least have a goal. Youre aiming for something. Its not a good goal, but at least you want something. And youve got anger and fear, but at least youre feeling something.

Marilyn Monroe wasnt even her real name, Charles Manson isnt his real name, and now, Im taking that to be my real name. But whats real? You cant find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

Jesus is a half-naked guy, hanging, nailed to a cross, and then people wear that around their neck, and then those are the people that are upset about violence in movies.

I wish that my life could be like the movies, like Bonnie and Clyde or The Hunger or Harold and Maude. And... it can be! It maybe just takes somebody else who is as fearless as you. It takes a person who will not hesitate.

Watching movies is my one distraction.