Quotes from Marilyn Manson

There's a certain group of people who are always going to dislike me and disagree with whatever I say.

There's just no great rock albums anymore. There's a lot of rock music out there, but it's very bland and disposable.

My first dissatisfaction has always been with religion.

Sacrifice to me is something you do without expecting something in return.

If a kid is old enough to drive a car or buy a gun, isn't he old enough to be held personally responsible for what he does with his car or gun? Or if he's a teenager, should someone else be blamed because he isn't as enlightened as an eighteen-year-old?

As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I'm still not comfortable, but that's why I change and adapt the way I look.

I spent hours flipping through the stations, watching Pat Robertson preach about society's evils and then ask people to call him with their credit card number.

If every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes off of your life, every game of Dungeons & Dragons you play delays the loss of your virginity by seven hours.

My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it's a tornado that I'm controlling. It's creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way.

When I turned about 14, I developed a friendship with this guy whose mom was the secretary to Ernest Angley, the faith healer, who's very popular in the Midwest. He had a television show, and he was sort of like Liberace mixed with Jerry Falwell - very glitzy, very high-tech.

In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics.

Living in Hollywood, it's easy to have someone flatter you. That doesn't help me.

I can't go to sleep at night if I didn't accomplish at least something. That's the one thing that keeps me up.

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've found a woman I can relate to. That's something - and I don't even feel sappy saying it - that, if anyone has that, don't lose it, because it's probably the only thing that you can ever really find any satisfaction from.

It's my job to be the Pierrot, the clown, in the theatrical sense.

I walked away exhilarated by my success, because there's nothing like making a difference in someone's life, even if that difference is a lifetime of nightmares and a fortune in therapy bills.

My fans make me feel as young as they are. We share the same spirit and I share their outlook on life

When you want to die, you at least have a goal. You're aiming for something. It's not a good goal, but at least you want something. And you've got anger and fear, but at least you're feeling something.

People only hate what they see in themselves.

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.

The time that people aren't expecting what's going to happen, I find that's the best time to really cause the damage that needs to be done.

I have something that makes me happy on some level and this is a good way for me to deal with the torment of that teenage life gave me

I've been able to watch and to weather a lot of different periods in entertainment, politics and life.