Marilyn Manson Quotes

“Music is the strongest form of magic.”

“I fall in love with everything I also hate everything. It’s very hard to be a misanthrope and a romantic.”

“But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.”

“We don't like to kill our unborn, we need them to grow up and fight our wars.”

“You get depressed because you know that you're not what you should be.”

“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.”

“People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.”

“The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic.”

“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.”

“Most of the world's problems could be avoided if people just said what they meant.”

“… I don't expect everyone to get something deep out of it. Some people can just listen to the music, or get their aggressions out, but I think with any great painting or movie, album or whatever it is, it's better if people can take what they need from it. That they're not forced to get some particular message.”

“If they think that an artist can destroy their faith, then their faith is rather fragile.”

“Art gives me the freedom I don’t have when I make music. In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary.”

“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.”

“This question is posed to mayself, am I a man who thinks he's an angel? Or an angel who thinks he's a man?”

“If every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes off of your life, every game of Dungeons & Dragons you play delays the loss of your virginity by seven hours.”

“The imagination is precious. Don't lose it. Don't lose the child in you.”

“You should have to pass an IQ test before you breed. You have to take a driving test to operate vehicles and an SAT test to get into college. So why don’t you have to take some sort of test before you give birth to children? When I am President, that’s the first rule I will institute.”

“Art is a big question mark.”

“Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.”

“If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.”

“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.”

“In a society where you are taught to love everything, what value does that place on love?”

“I've seen my own death in dreams like this and it's helped me appreciate life more. I've also seen my own life in dreams and it's helped me appreciate death more.”

“Hopefully, I’ll be remembered as the person who brought an end to Christianity.”

“This is the culture your raising your kids in, don't be suprised when it blows up in your face.”

“I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.”

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

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

“What doesn't kill you is gonna leave a scar.”

“Relationships never break cleanly. Like a valuable vase, they are smashed and then glued back together, smashed and glued, smashed and glued until the pieces just don't fit together anymore.”

“Find what you are afraid of, face it, and then you won't be afraid of it anymore.”

“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.”

“If you intend to create something that people will observe and listen to, you've got to listen to them first.”

“Your beautiful don't let anyone tell you different”

“If you act like a rock star you will be treated like one.”

“[…] no one had lived up to the roles they acted out in public. They wasted their years trying to live the lies that they had created for themselves. Only in private could they really be the demons, hypocrites and sinners they really were, and woe betide anyone who caught them at their game, because the only thing worse than a lie is a lie exposed.”

“Suicide is painless.”

“We don't believe in credibility, because we know that we're fucking incredible.”

“I fear being like everyone I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. I love balancing between chaos and control with everything I do. I always have a fear of going one way or another, getting lost in something, or losing everything to get lost in. And I fear being a completely acceptable sheep in society.”

“I was becoming the cold, emotionally crippled monster I always wanted to be, and I wasn’t so sure I liked it. But it was too late. The metamorphosis was already well under way.”

“I'm a confession that is waiting to be heard”

“If someone listens to our music, and it makes them creative, that makes me happier than anything. But with our music, we try to teach the masses of fans that not everything is as it seems.”

“[...] art and commerce are in essence incompatible.”

“I have mood poisoning. Must be something I hate.”

“When someone was willing to drown with me, I really didn't want to drown anymore.”

“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.”

“Not only are love and hate such closely related emotions, but it's a lot easier to hate someone you've cared about than someone you never have.”

“Is adult entertainment killing our children? Or is killing our children entertaining adults?”

“The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth.”

“I spent hours flipping through the stations, watching Pat Robertson preach about society’s evils and then ask people to call him with their credit card number.”

“If people really stopped and realized how much art and creative people move the world versus politics and religion, I mean it’s not even up for debate. An artist at least creates things, puts things into the world. Where as these other people are destroying things, taking things out of the world.”

“… if I hadn't gone to a private Christian school, I'd never have built up enough animosity to want to have started a band. And now that I have one, the fact that they are giving me such resistance and publicity, they have made me far bigger than they'd ever have wanted me to have become. So I guess in a strange way the Christians have influenced me the most.”

“I'm not anything like Brad Pitt or Antonio Banderas, but maybe it's the taboo element of my image, which is almost deathlike, that attracts them. I should be the last person that [people] should be attracted to.”

“Understand this, tell others: in my dream vultures chase me into my burning house. There, they pick out the brains of my family, dismember them, devour. I emerge from my home and I am burning, skin falling away like a snake as the structure crumbles into a black skeleton. I cannot fight off the vultures. A young man or woman emerges from the ashes. He/she doesn't save me, because he/she is holding my cracked and swollen heart in one hand and a piece of paper in the other. I can read it. It discusses and compares in great detail the differences between me and the vultures. He wraps my heart in the paper and tosses it to the ground. Can you see?”

“I walked away exhilarated by my success, because there's nothing like making a difference in someone's life, even if that difference is a lifetime of nightmares and a fortune in therapy bills.”

“My pain's not ashamed to repeat itself”

“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.”

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

“The seeds of who I am now had been planted. I wrote in my notebook one day during ethics class.”

“Paintings are seldom guilty and often framed for crimes they did not commit. Some cover holes-holes in walls, holes in lives. Some make holes-in wallets, holes in hearts… in negative space.”

“People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves that we've got sitcoms with canned laughter that let's you know when to laugh if you're to stupid to know when the joke is.”

“I have assumed the role of Antichrist; I am the Nineties voice of individuality and people tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity…”

“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.”

“I hope that with our music we can inspire other people to be creative and to use their imagination, because it is something that is so lacking nowadays. You have virtual reality, MTV, video games and VCR's. Nobody really wants to think about things or create things. You have programs on a computer which will write a poem for you.”

“In explaining things to people, I've come to terms with the fact that a lot of my goals are very Christian in the end. Because people no longer appreciate the taboos of sex, drugs, and rock & roll. I have to take them as far as they've ever been taken before, on a grand scale, in order for the world to realize we have to start over. It's very much like the mythology of the bible, the end of the world, and the antichrist and people are made to make a choice about their faith. I think certain elements of that are correct.”