Marilyn Manson Quotes & Sayings

You'll understand when I'm dead. — Marilyn Manson

Find what you are afraid of, face it, and then you won't be afraid of it anymore. — Marilyn Manson

The record is about seeing death and growing from it, and in the end, being strong and being alive. — Marilyn Manson

In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary. — Marilyn Manson

If you intend to create something that people will observe and listen to, you've got to listen to them first. — Marilyn Manson

Johnny Depp is like a brother to me. We have matching tattoos on our backs - Charles Baudelaire, the flowers of evil, this giant skeleton thing. It's kind of a secret. People say to us, 'Why did you get that?' And we say, 'No reason.' — Marilyn Manson

I can't go to sleep at night if I didn't accomplish at least something. That's the one thing that keeps me up. — Marilyn Manson

Multiply your death, divide by sex, add up your violence, what do you get? — Marilyn Manson

Antichrist Superstar is also about me wanting to grow up and be something that people would adore ... instead I grew up and became something that people hated. — Marilyn Manson

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

Like LaVey, I had a also discovered what happens when you say something powerful that makes people think. They become afraid of you, and they neutralize your message by giving you a label that is not open to interpretation-- as a fascist, a devil worshipper or an advocate of rape and violence. — Marilyn Manson

I traveled into the future to get back in time. — Marilyn Manson

Yes, I'm reckless and sometime express no concern for my own well being, and I express a misanthropic view of the world, but to have an opinion, you can't be a nihilist. — Marilyn Manson

People expect me to me a 'shock rocker,' but there's nothing you can do anymore to be shocking. — Marilyn Manson

There's a lot of talk in some of the other versions of the Bible, the Hebrew versions, and things about the end of the world not being a punishment from God, but being an invitation from mankind. That mankind has to invite its own destruction. And I think that's very true, and it's almost very American. I think that's the type of society we're in and it's people's very fear of the Antichrist that has created it — Marilyn Manson

There are people accusing me that I'm sick, that I'm a danger to morals, western civilization and basically everything under the sun. And they've got these wild stories about me, completely off the wall, completely untrue. They thought them up and it makes you wonder what goes on in their brain, but of course, they don't consider themselves sick. They think they're normal because they don't dress like I do. — Marilyn Manson

There was definitely a lack of any sort of villain in the Clinton era, which is why, when Columbine happened, it was easy to pick on me. My face was around, and it made good TV. — Marilyn Manson

He's just simply John5 because he's the fifth person that we've hired. In the future, everyone will have numbers instead of names — Marilyn Manson

The boy that you loved is the man that you fear. — Marilyn Manson

On my albums, it's as though the parental advisory is built in. — Marilyn Manson

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

I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you're a person that matters. — Marilyn Manson

Without the threat of death there's no reason to live. — Marilyn Manson

Christians are a lot like dinosaurs - about to become extinct. — Marilyn Manson

I heard this album as finished, I heard it in dreams ... It was like the revelations of John the Baptist or something. — Marilyn Manson

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. — Marilyn Manson

They'll just cut our wrists like Cheap coupons and say that death Was on sale today. — Marilyn Manson

If I had to do a record review, I'd say it's got a cannibal, consumption, obsessive, violent-sex, romance angle, but with an upbeat swing to it. — Marilyn Manson

Man's greatest fear is chaos. — Marilyn Manson

It's really important for me to get across to our fans that whenever I put myself in different circumstances. It is to learn from it so I can relay it to others. — Marilyn Manson

What doesn't kill you is gonna leave a scar. — Marilyn Manson

Law is only what is popular. Not what's right or wrong. — Marilyn Manson

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. — Marilyn Manson

My fans make me feel as young as they are. We share the same spirit and I share their outlook on life — Marilyn Manson

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

In the Bible, the word antichrist is only used as a description of people who don't believe in the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. He is not described as one satanic entity - as the beast of Revelation which many people believe - but as a person, any person, who deviates from the Christian orthodoxy. But through years of myth-making and fear-sowing, Christianity metamorphosed antichrists into a single Antichrist, an apocalyptic villain and Christian bogeyman used to scare people much as Santa Claus is used to regulate children's behavior. — Marilyn Manson

I don't have anything against Simon Cowell and 'The X Factor.' — Marilyn Manson

If anybody wants to be a rock star they've gotta try hard enough. They're not gonna get it handed to them — Marilyn Manson

To me, Columbine is just as awful as Vietnam, and it's just as awful as anything else. — Marilyn Manson

Let the ugly light of the world in, we are no longer blind. — Marilyn Manson

Videos have to go hand in hand with your music, so that's why, ultimately, they should be created by the artist. And if they're not, it doesn't really add up to me. — Marilyn Manson

I put a mustache and some eyebrows on, and I looked just like Nicolas Cage ... We have the same amazingly handsome good looks. — Marilyn Manson

I realized that I started writing songs to make people feel how I felt, rather than just making them feel something. That's not the way I should do things. — Marilyn Manson

When I was a kid I think the thing I remembered most about The Exorcist was Linda Blair being possessed by the devil, and how scary that was. It had a lot of parallels for me because the movie was challenging different ideas about faith and it was looking at religion in a darker way. Growing up I was afraid of being possessed by the devil, as an adult I'm afraid of being possessed by the world, by ignorance, and not holding on to my beliefs and what I feel strongly about. — Marilyn Manson

It isn't hard to find a person whom I could fall in love with, to give her romance. But it's hard to find such a person who would understand your view on life, accept who you really are and would truly care for you. — Marilyn Manson

Someday, when I manage to finally figure out how to take care of myself, then I'll consider taking care of someone else. — Marilyn Manson

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

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. — Marilyn Manson

If i believed in an outside force that we wanted to call God - and i believe that there is one. i think God would appreciate what i say, because i can't see God wanting to create a world full of idiots — Marilyn Manson

If you dont educate your kids ... I will. — Marilyn Manson

There are definitely Dark Forces out there that none of us fully understand. People fear what they don't understand, and lash out against it — Marilyn Manson

I've never been a suicidal person. I've never been someone to want to see the world come to an end. But I would like to see something different than what I'm seeing. Because it is becoming a monotonous - as if you're watching re-runs of things you've already seen. — Marilyn Manson

I have something that makes me happy on some level and this is a good way for me to deal with the torment of that teenage life gave me — Marilyn Manson

Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed. — Marilyn Manson

I'm absolutely not looking for someone who agrees with me about everything or someone who wants to please me by believing what I believe. — Marilyn Manson

My feelings are, if you're gonna lead a rock n' roll lifestyle, don't let it affect your work. I know I can stay up all night and still come in the next day and write a song, and nothing will stop me from doing it. I expect the same from everyone else. — Marilyn Manson

I've always had a desire to be provocative and to make people think, but it wouldn't be any challenge for me just to be shocking. That is where it begins for me, not where it stops. And I could be much more shocking. I think I've adopted a sense of subtlety. I don't sit around wondering how I can make myself even stranger to the world. I've simply evolved into the monster I created, and I'm quite happy with it. — Marilyn Manson

You might find me outside with a can of hair spray, spraying it with the hope that the sun will burn a hole in the Earth. Another part of me hopes people will grow up and evolve and get smarter. That's the paradox of Marilyn Manson. — Marilyn Manson

I can't turn off the way I think, and that's essentially who I am, who anybody is. — Marilyn Manson

Whatever doesn't kill you, it's gonna leave a scar — Marilyn Manson

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. — Marilyn Manson

We've always found that with people being so desensitized, things have to be really shocking and have to punch you in the face to get your attention. Then, once you've got their attention, you can say something they might remember — Marilyn Manson

God is just a statistics. — Marilyn Manson

If you die and enough people are watching, then you become a martyr, you become a hero, you become well-known. — Marilyn Manson

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. — Marilyn Manson

Anyone I may have used should feel happy that they even had a use. It's better than being useless. — Marilyn Manson

I think confidence is the most appealing quality in any human being or any artist; that's what really attracts us to people. — Marilyn Manson

Let's just kill everyone and let God sort them out. — Marilyn Manson

[ ... ] morals are worn as a badge to make you look good and [ ... ] it's so much easier to talk about your beliefs than to live up to them — Marilyn Manson

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

The biggest sin in Satanism is not murder, nor is it kindness. It is stupidity. — Marilyn Manson

There is good and evil within all of us, and I enjoy searching to bring that out through my music. I like it that there are questions brought out by my music. People must look inside themselves for the answers — Marilyn Manson

I'm not going to be some kind of PC, tree-hugger. — Marilyn Manson

In a society where you are taught to love everything, what value does that place on love? — Marilyn Manson

Black eyeliner. It's standard. It's all you need. It just makes the world a better place. — Marilyn Manson

[ ... ] extremes - whether good or bad - don't fit into society's definition of normality — Marilyn Manson

I can't sleep without the TV on. It doesn't matter where it is. I don't like silence. My ears ring from loud music. — Marilyn Manson

We were totally high and we had Quiet Riot play at our after-show party at the Dragonfly. I think we reunited them, just like we did W.A.S.P. We take sole responsibility for the return of retro heavy metal, and I'm ashamed. But — Marilyn Manson

I'm thinking about entering a Marilyn Manson costume contest to see if I lose. — Marilyn Manson

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. — Marilyn Manson

I don't think I have ever tried to create things to encourage people to hurt others, or themselves. — Marilyn Manson

I hate normal studios, because you have to say "hi" to the person at the front desk. And then you go into the studio, and there's a second engineer in there that you don't know, and then you're stuck in a glass box with someone talking to you through a walkie-talkie. — Marilyn Manson

So anybody with any bit of intelligence has got to be pissed off because if they see how things are in the world, they're not going to be happy with it. — Marilyn Manson

Having an avatar doesn't give you an identity, and having a persona online doesn't make you a personality either. — Marilyn Manson

I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me. — Marilyn Manson

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. — Marilyn Manson

If you lose who you are, what do you have? — Marilyn Manson

I am truly amazed that after all this time, religious groups still need to attack entertainment and use these tragedies as a pitiful excuse for their own self-serving publicity. In response to their protests, I will provide a show where I balance my songs with a wholesome Bible reading. This way, fans will not only hear my so-called, violent point of view, but we can also examine the virtues of wonderful 'Christian' stories of disease, murder, adultery, suicide and child sacrifice. Now that seems like 'entertainment' to me. — Marilyn Manson

I pity anybody who has to spend a day with me. — Marilyn Manson

But through years of myth-making and fear-sowing, Christianity meta-morphosed antichrists into a single Antichrist, an apocalyptic villain and Christian bogeyman used to scare people as much as Santa Claus is used to regulate children's behavior. After years of studying the concept, I began to realize the Antichrist is a character--a metaphor--who exists in nearly all religions under different names, and maybe there is some truth in it, a need for such a person. But from another perspective, this person could be seen as not a villain but a final hero to save people from their own ignorance. The apocalypse doesn't have to be fire and a brimstone. It could happen on a personal level. — Marilyn Manson

Hate today, no love for tomorrow — Marilyn Manson

The seeds of who I am now had been planted. "Fools aren't born," I wrote in my notebook one day during ethics class. "They are watered and grown like weeds by institutions such as Christianity." — Marilyn Manson

It says right here you've got to be saved to go to heaven. But the way I see it, you've only got to be yourself to go to hell. — Marilyn Manson

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. — Marilyn Manson

God will grovel before me, God will crawl at my feet. — Marilyn Manson

This isn't a mob, won't need to change the names. Everyone around you has murdered someone, something sacred. There isn't one nail without dirt under it. There isn't any white cotton panties that aren't soaked and stained red. It's better to push something when it's slipping, than to risk being dragged down. — Marilyn Manson

My first dissatisfaction has always been with religion. — Marilyn Manson

The opposite of love is apathy, and hate is really the same as love-if your so consumed with hatred for someone, you might as well be loving them because your thinking about them for the same amount of time. — Marilyn Manson

I was very apprehensive, mostly because I didn't want to get caught. By now, I had begun to feel removed from the everyday world of morality. Guilt had become more a fear of getting caught than any sense of right or wrong. — Marilyn Manson

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. — Marilyn Manson