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.
Find what you are afraid of, face it, and then you won’t be afraid of it anymore.
I’ve always believed that a person is smart. It’s people that are stupid.
The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic.
When you’re taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?
The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today’s youth.
Light a candle for the sinners set the world on fire
The imagination is precious. Don’t lose it. Don’t lose the child in you.
If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren’t your friends.
The biggest sin in Satanism is not murder, nor is it kindness. It is stupidity.
When you’re taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, what value does that put on love?
Is adult amusement killing our children, or is killing our children amusing adults?
If you act like a rock star you will be treated like one.
I knew that I was supposed to respond with some kind of mannered phrase that ended with “hail Satan,” but I couldn’t bring myself to do so. It seemed too empty and ritualistic, like wearing a uniform in a Christian school.
I never said to be like me, I say be yourself and make a difference.
If Satan wasn’t around, churches would go out of business.
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.
When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.
The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.
I’m so famous, people expect me to sell as many records as Celine Dion or Puff Daddy.
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 first dissatisfaction has always been with religion.
Sometimes you feel awkward being what you’re best at, you feel like you have to be something new.
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.
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.
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.
I wish that my life could be like the movies, like ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ or ‘The Hunger’ or ‘Harold and Maude.’ And… it can be! It maybe just takes somebody else who is as fearless as you. It takes a person who will not hesitate.
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.
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.
I don’t say things to be offensive I say things because they’re funny to me. It amuses me.
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.
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.
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.
There’s no reason to change what you are, but if you’re not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.
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.
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.
We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you’ve got the ability to believe.
My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially because they didn’t have a job that gave them a pension.