Quotes By Marilyn Manson

This is the culture you're raising your kids in. Don't be surprised if it blows up in your face.

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.'

I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity.

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

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.

Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference.

I've found a woman I can relate to. That's something - and I don't even feel sappy saying it - that, if anyone has that, don't lose it, because it's probably the only thing that you can ever really find any satisfaction from.

I went to one AA meeting and I got asked for an autograph.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.