Quotes from Marilyn Manson

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

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.

Man's greatest fear is chaos.

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

As a kid I just felt like an outsider.

This is the golden age of grotesque.

For me, art is supposed to be a question mark.

Art is the free expression of the artist and they tried to stop us from expressing ourselves, our art.

Art, to me, is a question. It should never be an answer.

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

All of my heroes, like Dali, are people who pioneered various forms of cinema.

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.

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.

I don't need to drive. I have no business driving. I would never be able to find my keys.

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

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

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

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'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.

As you keep getting more popular, people are continually wanting more from you and it seems to me that all they want in the end is your death.

Do not seek death, seek destruction.

If we're bringing up kids that are so stupid that they kill themselves because of a song, what good are the kids in the first place ?

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

I can't turn off the way I think, and that's essentially who I am, who anybody is.