Marilyn manson quotes

You cannot sedate all the things you hate.

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

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.

I don't want to feel like I've matured. That's a stupid word that I never want to use.

I believe nothing happens by accident. My fame has happened for a reason. My fans are my kindred spirits in revolution. If anyone chooses to ignore the message or the messenger, they do so at their own risk. Believe it or not, there are many more people out there that understand what I am trying to do than society wants to admit. The way I live my life represents a much bigger part of America than anyone would care to imagine

Occasionally, something will happen that will change your opinion of someone irrevocably, that will shatter the ideal you've built up around a person and force you to see them for the fallible and human creature that they really are.

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

Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself.

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.

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

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

When people ask me about drugs and alcohol, I say "Yeah, I went to rehab, I went to a mental hospital, I've been to jail." The main lesson you can learn is do drugs and alcohol when you are in a good mood, not when you are in a bad mood, and find balance in anything you do.

Music is the strongest form of magic.

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

When people say 'I want to be like you', I tell them if you want to be like me, then be yourself.

I don't care if your world is ending today because I wasn't invited to it anyway.

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

I think guilt is the biggest problem in America, people are always feeling guilty about being themselves. You can't say what you want because it's not politically correct. You can't look like you want because you, the people at the office aren't going to like you and so on.

I'm not against god, I'm against the misuse of god.

If you lose emotion, and you gain it back, you realise that hate and love are very important to distribute properly. So I'm not going to waste any kind of emotion on things that aren't related to me.

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`m not a slave to a god that doesn`t exist.

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.

What I'm doing is keeping the spirit of Rock'N Roll alive. Rock 'n roll is supposed to be fast and loud and its supposed to piss off the older generation.

We are our own wicked gods with little 'g's' and big dicks, sadistic and constantly inflicting a slow demise.

Seance to renaissance. So it begins

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.

The most genius ideas are in the minds of children and lunatics. I describe myself as somewhere in between.

I talked to Snoop Doggy Dog today. Well I'm not sure if you could really call it talked because I could hardly understand what he was saying. But i think he was trying to communicate was that he wanted to work with me in some sort of capacity and something involving marijuana.

Better pray for hell, not hallelujah.

I have mood poisoning. Must be something I hate.

I'm chaos, I've always been chaos, my point on Earth is chaos.

We are the things and shapes to come, your freedom's not free of dumb.

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

If you believe in what you're doing, you're going to make money. When you question it, you won't.

I don't think we should ever regret anything we do. I think we have to accept the consequences and you learn from your mistakes, and that's how you grow as a person

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

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.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

I don't want to have a gravestone. I want to have all my friends burn me and then snort the ashes. I think that's the only way to go out.

Libido, fascination, too much oral defecation. White trash get down on your knees, time for cake and sodomy.

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

It happens every millennium. Now more than ever, man threatens to destroy himself with his own technology, and all the ideas contained within Big Brother exist within Little Brother. We're all watching ourselves. We are our own oppressors. This is a time when an idea like God is needed more than ever. For me, I've found that God exists within yourself and what you create. The only thing we've got to look forward to is saving ourselves

NO WE ARE NOT DEVIL WORSHIPPERS!!! I've never been and never will be a satan worshipper or someone who worships a devil.

I care about the people I know and love the most, but I also care about what the people I don't know think in the sense that I want them to think and understand me in a certain way. I don't base my life around either one, and I don't change the way I live to please either set of people, but I do care.

Don't ever empty the bucket of mystery. Never let people define what you do. It's not about zigging when you should zag. It's not about doing something unprecedented and unpredictable. It's just about never being a word, or something that is not in the process of transformation...

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.

The point is that life for me is not going to be the way it is for everyone else. I have a fog machine and movie lights in my bedroom.

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

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'm a confession that is waiting to be heard

If things are too perfect, people are always so afraid that it's going to change, so they ruin it themselves.

Finding someone who's willing to drown with you creates a situation where you no longer want to drown.

Art is a big question mark.

Just remember when you think you're free, the crack in your heart is me.

Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.

People drink to numb the pain and suffering. 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.

If Satan wasn't around, churches would go out of business.

If your reality is the same as my reality, then you're in trouble.

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.

I've found a woman I can relate to. That's something - and I don't even feel sappy saying it - that, if anyone has that, don't lose it, because it's probably the only thing that you can ever really find any satisfaction from.

Sometimes I like to get drunk and buy things on the internet, and then I wake up the next day and find 'em on my doorstep, and it's like Christmas. I get excited.

I dare you all to write one more thing that you won't say to my face. Because I will make you say it. In that manner. That is a threat.

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 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.

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

Enjoy your faults, that's what separates you from the rest of the world.

Everything is acting.

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

You can't force someone to see the truth, just like you can't force a blind man to see.

If people are going to hate me, I want them to hate me for the right reasons

Sell your soul to yourself. You'll make more money.

I've always been paranoid about the police, because even when I'm not doing anything illegal, I'm thinking about doing something illegal. So, whenever I'm around a cop, I get uncomfortable and nervous, worried that I'll say the wrong thing or look so guilty they'll arrest me anyway. Being completely out of my mind on drugs doesn't help the situation any.

Donohue: "It is Christianity that [Manson] hates, and it is Catholicism that he hates most of all. This guy is at war with Christ." Manson: "I can't possibly be at war with Christ, because your religion killed him and what he stood for. But if you want to be at war with me, bring it on."

Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like we do.

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

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

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.

Whether you interpret the Bible as literature or as the final word of whatever God may be, Christianity has given us an image of death and sexuality that we have based our culture around. A half-naked dead man hangs in most homes and around our necks, and we have just taken that for granted all of our lives.

I like to make people think differently than they did before I walked in the room.

My dream of an apocalypse that was the Antichrist Superstar has unfolded. I could see that they only looked and acted like humans, but they had lost their souls, they were Mechanical Animals

What nearly everybody in my life had misunderstood about Satanism was that it is not about ritual sacrifices, digging up graves and worshipping the devil. The devil doesn't exist. Satanism is about worshipping yourself, because you are responsible for your own good and evil.

There's a big difference, I discovered, between wanting to die and not wanting to live. When you want to die, you at least have a goal. When you don't want to live, you're really just empty. That's the point I was at before I was able to make.

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.

Leave me in a room with some crayons and I'll draw on the wall.

I think there's a danger with any great art, that if you begin to test your ideas on other people, and get their opinions before making decisions, or if you pay too much attention to what other people say about what you create, that it really pollutes your expression. I think that I'm much more about pure art and honesty and expressing exactly what I feel, and not caring so much what anyone says. However, I do respect, and I do pay attention to everyone's comments. And I do take them into consideration. But I don't base my decisions by it

Are people raised to be villains or vilified like I have become?

The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects shaping our personalities and humanity.

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.'

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

Everybody feels like [a misfit] at different points in their life. If you feel like who you are is right for you, then you are beautiful.

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.

All the drugs in the world won't save us from ourselves.

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

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'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.

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.

I was never afriad of what was under the bed. I wanted it but never got it. I became it.

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

I'm tired of people calling me a devil worshipper. It's kind of pointless you know. Because if the Devil did exist, he'd be worshipping me, because I'm more successful than he is.

I often obsess so much about things that I can't get done, that I ruin other things.

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

Black eyeliner. It’s standard. It’s all you need. It just makes the world a better place.

Dear God, if you were alive, you know we'd kill you.

You have to be saved to get into heaven....you only have to be you to get into hell.

As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I'm still not comfortable, but that's why I change and adapt the way I look.

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.

Your beautiful don't let anyone tell you different

To me, Satan ultimately represents rebellion.

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.

If you act like a rock star, you will be treated like one

This is the culture you're raising your kids in. Don't be surprised if it blows up in your face.

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.

A pill to make you numb, a pill to make you dumb.

It's shocking to me that it's easier to buy a gun at Wal-Mart than it is to buy my record.

I don't like fun, it upsets me.

I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference.

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.

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

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

I wasn't born with enough middle fingers

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

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

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

I don't like the drugs, but the drugs like me.