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
When you’re taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love? – Marilyn Manson
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. – Marilyn Manson
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. – Marilyn Manson
They’ll see it. And it doesn’t matter if they don’t. It’s only Rock ‘n’ Roll. But I do intend to move more into the Mainstream. Marilyn Manson is just the First phase. – 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
Sometimes you feel awkward being what you’re best at, you feel like you have to be something new. – Marilyn Manson
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. – 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
I did vote Obama. But I’ve never believed in the authenticity of the two-party system. – Marilyn Manson
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. – Marilyn Manson
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. – Marilyn Manson
If you believe in what you’re doing, you’re going to make money. When you question it, you won’t. – Marilyn Manson
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?’ – 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
We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves. – Marilyn Manson
To me, Columbine is just as awful as Vietnam, and it’s just as awful as anything else. – 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
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? – Marilyn Manson