Quotes By Marilyn Manson

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

These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way.

Living in Hollywood, it's easy to have someone flatter you. That doesn't help me.

The person who thinks I worship the devil and kill animals is just as important as someone who makes an interpretation that's closer to what I intended.

I think everybody's got a presentation. Everybody looks a certain way because they want to convey a certain image. You look a certain way because you want people to listen to you in a certain way.

I used to have nightmares about the Antichrist - what would happen, where it would come from, and who it would be.

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.

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.

My goal isn't to make money, it's to try and survive and make a point.

As a kid I just felt like an outsider.

I fall in love very easily.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

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.

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

As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I'm still not comfortable, but that's why I change and adapt the way I look.

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

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

I dare you all to write one more thing that you won't say to my face.

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.

Marilyn Manson is a criticism of gimmickry, while being itself a gimmick.

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

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.

I can't 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.

Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.