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.
I don't need to drive. I have no business driving. I would never be able to find my keys.
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.
Actors always want to be musicians, and musicians want to be actors.
My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you've got the ability to believe.
Man's greatest fear is chaos.
If a kid is old enough to drive a car or buy a gun, isn't he old enough to be held personally responsible for what he does with his car or gun? Or if he's a teenager, should someone else be blamed because he isn't as enlightened as an eighteen-year-old?
Comedians have a huge carte blanche and the ability to get away with saying a lot of things.
I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.
I refuse to say things behind people's backs.
I was an extra on 21 Jump Street when I was 19 years old.
People only hate what they see in themselves.
If I think I weigh too much, I'll lose weight; if my hair looks stupid, I'll cut it. I guess I'm my harshest critic. I'm not easily satisfied.
When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?
In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it.
Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?
Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.
I'm not a role model. I'm a role villain.
Finding someone who's willing to drown with you creates a situation where you no longer want to drown.
I feel like I've dreamed half of my life that hasn't happened yet, so a lot of times I'm going along, and I do stuff, and I know that I've done it. I have deja vus more than I have regular experiences. If half of your day is a deja vu, then you start to wonder, 'What is real and what isn't?'
If I were in a room full of people, I'd rather be the person who is more interesting than the one who is wallpaper.
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.
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.'
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 did vote Obama. But I've never believed in the authenticity of the two-party system.
I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference.
For me, art is supposed to be a question mark.
Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.
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.
Everything I was afraid of when I was growing up, I've become. I've taken on my nightmares, like the devil and the end of the world, and I've become those things.
I'm not a masochist. I'm simply into trying to enjoy what I do, because otherwise there's no point.
I'm someone who is open-minded to new experiences because they teach you new things.
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.
There's a certain group of people who are always going to dislike me and disagree with whatever I say.
I'm my most creative between 3 and 5 a.m. That's the way I've always been.
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.
If you want break it down, rock and roll is about saying what you can't say in normal life to girls, so you have to say it in songs.
Rumors, stories... I'm used to them. I got my ribs removed, I was on 'The Wonder Years'... You know there's a different story every day.
I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me.
I think confidence is the most appealing quality in any human being or any artist; that's what really attracts us to people.
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 like Kylie Minogue sometimes - I like a lot of unusual stuff... I don't know - I like Justin Timberlake over Lady Gaga, just musically.
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.
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.
If you lose who you are, what do you have?
Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference.
I'm not going to be some kind of PC, tree-hugger.
It's shocking to me that it's easier to buy a gun at Wal-Mart than it is to buy my record.
Leave me in a room with some crayons and I'll draw on the wall.