Quotes By Marilyn Manson

As a kid I just felt like an outsider.

The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at.

I fall in love very easily.

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.

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

I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.

I'm kind of shy, and I think that I take that out by performing in front of a lot of people. That's how I get out my shyness.

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.

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.

It's better to use a curse word than to hurt somebody else, I find.

To admit you want to have a comeback means you have to admit you weren't what you were supposed to be. You dropped below your own standard.

I'm my most creative between 3 and 5 a.m. That's the way I've always been.

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

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.

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

Marriage changes everything.

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.

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.

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.'

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.

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.

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.

It's my job to be the Pierrot, the clown, in the theatrical sense.

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

In the end we're all Jerry Springer Show guests, really, we just haven't been on the show.

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

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.