Quotes by Marilyn Manson

"I'm absolutely not looking for someone who agrees with me about everything or someone who wants to please me by believing what I believe."

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

"I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me."

"I don't want to feel like I've matured. That's a stupid word that I never want to use."

"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."

"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."

"Finding someone who's willing to drown with you creates a situation where you no longer want to drown."

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

"When I was stalking my special lady friend on MySpace, people would always say, 'Is this really Marilyn Manson or some kind of psycho?' And I'm like, 'Both.'"

"Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself."

"Yes, I'm reckless and sometime express no concern for my own well being, and I express a misanthropic view of the world, but to have an opinion, you can't be a nihilist."

"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."

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

"I care about the people I know and love the most, but I also care about what the people I don't know think in the sense that I want them to think and understand me in a certain way. I don't base my life around either one, and I don't change the way I live to please either set of people, but I do care."

"Don't ever empty the bucket of mystery. Never let people define what you do. It's not about zigging when you should zag. It's not about doing something unprecedented and unpredictable. It's just about never being a word, or something that is not in the process of transformation."

"In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it."

"All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you're made to feel guilty for being human, then you're going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can't escape from."

"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."

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

"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."