Marilyn Manson
I haven't looked at marriage in the conventional sense, as far as settling down. I look at it as putting faith in another person, which has always been hard for me to do.Collection: Faith
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.Collection: Jealousy
When I turned about 14, I developed a friendship with this guy whose mom was the secretary to Ernest Angley, the faith healer, who's very popular in the Midwest. He had a television show, and he was sort of like Liberace mixed with Jerry Falwell - very glitzy, very high-tech.Collection: Friendship
My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it's a tornado that I'm controlling. It's creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way.Collection: Art
I just don't like when there's a rumor that says I'm dating someone who is below my standards. But when I got divorced, my ex-wife said I was spending all my time with Lindsay Lohan and Angelina Jolie. I was like, 'Thank you for the big ups!'Collection: Dating
If Satan wasn't around, churches would go out of business.Collection: Business
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.Collection: Imagination
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.Collection: Hope
When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.Collection: Dreams
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.Collection: Art
The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.Collection: Humor
Marriage changes everything.Collection: Marriage
All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you're made to feel guilty for being human, then you're going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can't escape from.Collection: Nature
Music is the strongest form of magic.Collection: Music
We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.Collection: Society
When you want to die, you at least have a goal. You're aiming for something. It's not a good goal, but at least you want something. And you've got anger and fear, but at least you're feeling something.Collection: Anger
Jesus is a half-naked guy, hanging, nailed to a cross, and then people wear that around their neck, and then those are the people that are upset about violence in movies.Collection: Movies
Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like we do.Collection: Movies
I think people have to take responsibility for their own actions.
America puts killers on the cover of 'TIME' magazine, giving them as much notoriety as our favorite movie stars.
From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes.
I pity anybody who has to spend a day with me.
My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama's boy.
I like to make people think differently than they did before I walked in the room.
When I was stalking my special lady friend on MySpace, people would always say, 'Is this really Marilyn Manson or some kind of psycho?' And I'm like, 'Both.'
I've never treated anyone in my band like they're not on the same level as me. I'm not that kind of person.
Watching movies is my one distraction.
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.
There's nothing that anyone could say about me that would hurt my feelings.
I'm completely unlike a lot of other performers in the past who have been forgiven or come to terms with the real world because they tell everyone their performance is 'just a show.' And so, people say, 'Oh, it's OK then. We don't care. He's not really a bad person.' It's not just a show for me. It's my life.
Anybody who does not evolve can become a self-parody. I have to evolve on a daily basis just to keep my own interest in what I do.
I don't try to be bad as much as I just am by nature.
I'm so famous, people expect me to sell as many records as Celine Dion or Puff Daddy.
My first dissatisfaction has always been with religion.
I'm thinking about entering a Marilyn Manson costume contest to see if I lose.
I believe a lot about psychology, or I'd like to learn about it - I'm someone who likes to learn about everything.
I like zombie movies. I like 'The Walking Dead;' I like the metaphor of it, simply because when we go with the zombie concept - if you're bitten by a zombie, you don't transform into something else like a vampire or a werewolf or whatever. You become something that's not you.
When you're in a relationship, if you just break it down to regular terms, people are attracted to something, and that's what they want you to be, and that's what you should just be, and for me, it's very simple - if I meet a girl and I say, 'This is what I like about you. Just continue. Every day.'
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.
If you believe in what you're doing, you're going to make money. When you question it, you won't.
I can't turn off the way I think, and that's essentially who I am, who anybody is.
On my albums, it's as though the parental advisory is built in.
I've been able to watch and to weather a lot of different periods in entertainment, politics and life.
I was a pizza delivery boy at the Pizza Oven in Canton. I wanted to get fired so bad, I actually wrecked the delivery car, but they wouldn't fire me because I was the only person they had working there.
I believe that you are not stuck with a pre-destiny. I believe that there is ways to see all these things that are laid down in front of you and where you belong and to smack yourself in the face when you realize that you've strayed off your path and get back to where your path is.
In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics.
I often obsess so much about things that I can't get done, that I ruin other things.
Someday, when I manage to finally figure out how to take care of myself, then I'll consider taking care of someone else.
To me, Columbine is just as awful as Vietnam, and it's just as awful as anything else.
Fear is something I instill in other people, mostly young girls.