Marilyn Manson Quotes

• "A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do."
• "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."
• "Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference."
• "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."
• "I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference."
• "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."
• "I view my job as being someone who is supposed to piss people off. I don't want to be just one-of-the-guys. I don't want to be just a smiling face you see on television presenting some vapid kind of easily-digestible garbage."
• "In the end we're all Jerry Springer Show guests, really, we just haven't been on the show."
• "Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?"
• "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'."
• "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."
• "Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave."
• "The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at."
• "The word 'Antichrist', to me, is the collective disbelief in god."
• "These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way."
• "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."
• "We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves."
• "What happens someday if more people own my record than the bible? That will make me god because a lot more people believe in me than him? Because it's just about popularity. There are plenty of people in the world how have never heard of Jesus, while America takes him for granted."
• "When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed."
• "When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?"
• "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."
• "Music is the strongest form of magic."
• "I need to broaden my horizons really [on plans to move into acting]"