Quotes from Marilyn Manson

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.

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

On my albums, it's as though the parental advisory is built in.

People expect me to me a 'shock rocker,' but there's nothing you can do anymore to be shocking.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.'

To admit you want to have a comeback means you have to admit you weren't what you were supposed to be. You dropped below your own standard.

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.

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

This question is posed to mayself, am I a man who thinks he's an angel? Or an angel who thinks he's a man?

You can find inspiration for man's behaviour wherever you look.

The boy that you loved is the man that you fear.

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

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