Quotes from Marilyn Manson

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

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.

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

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.

Apart from a very close circle of friends, few people know my true self, and it's normal, I never put it into my music.

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.

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'.

The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic.

We are the things and shapes to come, your freedom's not free of dumb.

Nowhere in the Gospels is intelligence praised as a virtue.

Music is the strongest form of magic.

I'm not against god, I'm against the misuse of god.

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

Let's just kill everyone and let God sort them out.

Dear God, if you were alive, you know we'd kill you.

God is just a statistics.

God will grovel before me, God will crawl at my feet.

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

Good and evil go hand in hand, you can't seperate them.

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.

The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects shaping our personalities and humanity.

The imagination is precious. Don't lose it. Don't lose the child in you.

Music critics get their records for free so their opinions usually don't matter.

Watching movies is my one distraction.