"Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference."
"In the end we're all Jerry Springer Show guests, really, we just haven't been on the show."
"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."
"When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed."
"Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave."
"Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?"
"When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?"
"They'll see it. And it doesn't matter if they don't. It's only Rock 'n' Roll. But I do intend to move more into the Mainstream. Marilyn Manson is just the First phase."
"The word 'Antichrist', to me, is the collective disbelief in god."
"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 never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference."
"A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do."
"Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed."
"These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way."
"We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves."
"Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best."
"Music is the strongest form of magic."
"This is the culture you're raising your kids in. Don't be surprised if it blows up in your face."
"People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity."
"Marilyn Manson is a criticism of gimmickry, while being itself a gimmick."
"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 used to have nightmares about the Antichrist - what would happen, where it would come from, and who it would be."
"To me, Satan ultimately represents rebellion."
"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'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."
