Marilyn Manson Quotes
I remember growing up, saying you’re an artist it sounds pretentious but now it’s one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself.
Someday, when I manage to finally figure out how to take care of myself, then I'll consider taking care of someone else.
It's shocking to me that it's easier to buy a gun at Wal-Mart than it is to buy my record.
I read all the great philosophers but most people just hear what they want to hear and it makes it easy for them to brand us devil worshippers.
I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.
If you intend to create something that people will observe and listen to, you've got to listen to them first.
Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?
As a performer, I wanted to be the loudest, most persistent alarm clock I could be, because there didn’t seem like any other way to snap society out of its Christianity- and media-induced coma.
If you really feel hatred for someone, and kind of send it their way, then it’s out of your system and in their hands. I always think it’s therapeutic.
If someone listens to our music, and it makes them creative, that makes me happier than anything.
Nothing's gonna change the world, nothing's gonna change the world. There was Lennon and a happy gun, there were words on the pavement.
My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially because they didn't have a job that gave them a pension.
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.
The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.
For me it's very important to express my thoughts, the pictures I carry inside of me, maybe because it's important to get them out.
Ultimately, because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic.
They'll see it. And it doesn't matter if they don't. It's only Rock 'n' Roll. But I do intend to move more into the Mainstream. Marilyn Manson is just the First phase.
For me, the key to longevity - and immortality, in a sense - has to do with transformation.
That becomes the revolution, to be idealistic enough that you think you can change the world, and what you find is you can't change anything but yourself.
If they think that an artist can destroy their faith, then their faith is rather fragile.
But what's real? You can't find the truth. You just pick the lie you like best. As long as you know that everything's a lie, you can't hurt yourself.
If you die and enough people are watching, then you become a martyr, you become a hero, you become well-known.
Sometimes you feel awkward being what you're best at, you feel like you have to be something new.
In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary.
I heard this album as finished, I heard it in dreams . . . It was like the revelations of John the Baptist or something.
When I was stalking my special lady friend on MySpace, people would always say, 'Is this really Marilyn Manson or some kind of psycho?' And I'm like, 'Both'
I think confidence is the most appealing quality in any human being or any artist; that's what really attracts us to people.
People hate to describe their music. What we have come to call it is "beat up your mom" music. As far as describing what it sounds like, I guess you'd have to listen.
In the end we're all Jerry Springer Show guests, really, we just haven't been on the show.