Marilyn Manson quotes:

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.

The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.

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 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!'

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.

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.

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.'

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

In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics.

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.

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.

When I finish a picture I don't show it to anyone if I feel it's not good enough yet. I've learnt to listen to my partners and my friends. For me it's the biggest success if they like it.

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 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 am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.

The word 'Antichrist', to me, is the collective disbelief in god.

I did vote Obama. But I've never believed in the authenticity of the two-party system.

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?

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.

The person who thinks I worship the devil and kill animals is just as important as someone who makes an interpretation that's closer to what I intended.

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

The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.

My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama's boy.

I used to have nightmares about the Antichrist - what would happen, where it would come from, and who it would be.

If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.

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.'

In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary.

My feelings are, if you're gonna lead a rock n' roll lifestyle, don't let it affect your work. I know I can stay up all night and still come in the next day and write a song, and nothing will stop me from doing it. I expect the same from everyone else.

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.

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.

I've been able to watch and to weather a lot of different periods in entertainment, politics and life.

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

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.

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.

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

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

I'm someone who is open-minded to new experiences because they teach you new things.

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

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.

Man's greatest fear is chaos.

My first dissatisfaction has always been with religion.

Watching movies is my one distraction.

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.

I'm not a role model. I'm a role villain.

Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?

I don't think I have ever tried to create things to encourage people to hurt others, or themselves.

My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you've got the ability to believe.

I don't encourage people to choose any sort of sexuality.

I refuse to say things behind people's backs.

These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way.

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

I think confidence is the most appealing quality in any human being or any artist; that's what really attracts us to people.

Fear is something I instill in other people, mostly young girls.

I don't try to be bad as much as I just am by nature.

Marilyn Manson is a criticism of gimmickry, while being itself a gimmick.

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

Art gives people a reason to be alive.

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.

America puts killers on the cover of 'TIME' magazine, giving them as much notoriety as our favorite movie stars.

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?

I think people have to take responsibility for their own actions.

What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.

It's better to use a curse word than to hurt somebody else, I find.

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

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

The time that people aren't expecting what's going to happen, I find that's the best time to really cause the damage that needs to be done.

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

I fall in love very easily.

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

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?'

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

I went to one AA meeting and I got asked for an autograph.

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.

And that's the type of thing I'm trying to speak out against the most, religion controlling what we see and what we do in our personal lives, even if you're not a part of that religion. Antichrist Superstar[the album] is a challenge really, to traditional morality and it's...to make people question that and make people think about different perspectives.

A lot of people don't think about it, but the Bible has every horror element that you can imagine. It's got the devil, the Antichrist, Lucifer, and Satan - which are four different characters. It's got the end of the world. You've got zombies, giants, demon possession, a lot of murder.

Antichrist Superstar is also about me wanting to grow up and be something that people would adore...instead I grew up and became something that people hated.

There's a lot of great stories and a lot of great values in the Holy Bible, and I actually relate to a lot of them. The character, the idea, or the part of my personality that I describe as Antichrist Superstar, is a lot like Lucifer in the Bible. Someone who was kicked out of heaven because he wanted to be God

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

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.

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.

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.'

Why should we believe in a god, that doesnt believe in us?

Comedians have a huge carte blanche and the ability to get away with saying a lot of things.

There's days when I'd love everybody to relize that things have gone too far, and we need to be born again...but there are other days when I think the world deserves to be destroyed. Why should I help anybody? Everybody's stepped on me my whole life.

The idea of Marilyn Manson has been brewing in my head, one form or another, since I was about 12 years old at a Christian high school in Canton, Ohio.

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.

I'm so famous, people expect me to sell as many records as Celine Dion or Puff Daddy.

To me, anything that is a church is really just far too close minded.

To me, Columbine is just as awful as Vietnam, and it's just as awful as anything else.

It's the whole Nietzche philosophy of you are your own God. That's why I debase myself in the concerts and tell people to spit on me. I'm saying to them 'You are no different from me'.

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

I don't think that my lyrics are over-laced with profanity, because I myself don't speak using a lot of profanity in normal conversation. But I think when you're making something aggressive and you need to get a point across, if you're angry, sometimes profanity is necessary. It's better to use a curse word than to hurt somebody else, I find.

My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially because they didn't have a job that gave them a pension.

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.

This isn't a mob, won't need to change the names. Everyone around you has murdered someone, something sacred. There isn't one nail without dirt under it. There isn't any white cotton panties that aren't soaked and stained red. It's better to push something when it's slipping, than to risk being dragged down.

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

I chose not to jump into the media frenzy and defend myself, though I was begged to be on every single TV show in existence. They want to blame entertainment? Isn't religion the first real entertainment? People dress up in costumes, sing songs and dedicate themselves in eternal fandom.

Mechanical Animals for me documents the repair of my emotions, the repair of my soul, and this record does deal with God in a different way. It deals with me finding God in art, and in music. I think there's more spirituality in art than you could find in a church

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.

I fear being like everyone I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. I love balancing between chaos and control with everything I do. I always have a fear of going one way or another, getting lost in something, or losing everything to get lost in. And I fear being a completely acceptable sheep in society.

This is the golden age of grotesque.

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.

I read all the great philosophers but most people just hear what they want to hear and it makes it easy for them to brand us devil worshippers.

Better pray for hell, not hallelujah.

The idea of heaven is Christianity's way of creating a hell on earth.

There's nothing that anyone could say about me that would hurt my feelings.

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.

In the end we're all Jerry Springer Show guests, really, we just haven't been on the show.

I heard this album as finished, I heard it in dreams . . . It was like the revelations of John the Baptist or something.

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

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

Music is the strongest form of magic.

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.

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 is a mockery of American pop culture.

Marilyn Manson is simply too dangerous for Darien Lake.

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'm thinking about entering a Marilyn Manson costume contest to see if I lose.

I am a character, so that's the problem. There are many, many levels to how I behave. Some people might associate being Marilyn Manson as having lipstick on, but I don't really have some sort of other lifestyle.

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