Quotes from Marilyn Manson

Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.

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

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

My goal isn't to make money, it's to try and survive and make a point.

So anybody with any bit of intelligence has got to be pissed off because if they see how things are in the world they're not going to be happy with it.

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.

Marilyn Manson is a mockery of American pop culture.

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

I'm my most creative between 3 and 5 a.m. That's the way I've always been.

Anybody who does not evolve can become a self-parody. I have to evolve on a daily basis just to keep my own interest in what I do.

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

Everything I was afraid of when I was growing up, I've become. I've taken on my nightmares, like the devil and the end of the world, and I've become those things.

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.

I fall in love with everything I also hate everything. It's very hard to be a misanthrope and a romantic.

You get depressed because you know that you're not what you should be.

If I think I weigh too much, I'll lose weight; if my hair looks stupid, I'll cut it. I guess I'm my harshest critic. I'm not easily satisfied.

If you're gonna pretend to be something, then you have to at least live up to what it is.

I dare you all to write one more thing that you won't say to my face.

I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference.

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.'

Everybody feels like [a misfit] at different points in their life. If you feel like who you are is right for you, then you are beautiful.

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.

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

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.