Quotes by Marilyn Manson

When I turned about 14, I developed a friendship with this guy whose mom was the secretary to Ernest Angley, the faith healer, whos very popular in the Midwest. He had a television show, and he was sort of like Liberace mixed with Jerry Falwell - very glitzy, very high-tech.

I havent looked at marriage in the conventional sense, as far as settling down. I look at it as putting faith in another person, which has always been hard for me to do.

Marriage changes everything.

I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because its a struggle, a competition of careers. Theres jealousy.

I dont say things to be offensive I say things because theyre funny to me. It amuses me.

I cant 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.

My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if its a tornado that Im controlling. Its creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way.

I think its the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like youre a person that matters.

Art gives people a reason to be alive.

I just dont like when theres a rumor that says Im dating someone who is below my standards. But when I got divorced, my ex-wife said I was spending all my time with Lindsay Lohan and Angelina Jolie. I was like, Thank you for the big ups!

I was a pizza delivery boy at the Pizza Oven in Canton. I wanted to get fired so bad, I actually wrecked the delivery car, but they wouldnt fire me because I was the only person they had working there.

If a kid is old enough to drive a car or buy a gun, isnt he old enough to be held personally responsible for what he does with his car or gun? Or if hes a teenager, should someone else be blamed because he isnt as enlightened as an eighteen-year-old?

When youre in a relationship, if you just break it down to regular terms, people are attracted to something, and thats what they want you to be, and thats what you should just be, and for me, its very simple - if I meet a girl and I say, This is what I like about you. Just continue. Every day.

Theres no reason to change what you are, but if youre not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

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.

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.

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

My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if youve got the ability to believe.

My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially because they didnt have a job that gave them a pension.