1- “I traveled into the future to get back in time.”
2- “The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic.”
3- “If you believe in what you’re doing, you’re going to make money. When you question it, you won’t.”
4- “People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.”
5- “Art is a big question mark.”
6- “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.”
7- “I’ve seen my own death in dreams like this and it’s helped me appreciate life more. I’ve also seen my own life in dreams and it’s helped me appreciate death more.”
8- “The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today’s youth.”
9- “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.”
10- “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.”
11- “Fear is something I instill in other people, mostly young girls.”
12- “I fall in love with everything I also hate everything. It’s very hard to be a misanthrope and a romantic”
13- “Your beautiful don’t let anyone tell you different”
14- “This is the culture your raising your kids in, don’t be suprised when it blows up in your face”
15- “I don’t think we should ever regret anything we do. I think we have to accept the consequences and you learn from your mistakes, and that’s how you grow as a person”
16- “The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects of shaping our personalities and humanity”
17- “I fall in love with everything I also hate everything. It’s very hard to be a misanthrope and a romantic.”
18- “Relationships never break cleanly. Like a valuable vase, they are smashed and then glued back together, smashed and glued, smashed and glued until the pieces just don’t fit together anymore.”
19- “Films and things like that are really my first love and, so when we get to make videos it’s just as important as the song. To me it’s not a commercial, for me it’s a whole work of art on it’s own so, we plan on working on a movie and things like that in the future so.”
20- “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.”
21- “The opposite of love is apathy, and hate is really the same as love-if your so consumed with hatred for someone, you might as well be loving them because your thinking about them for the same amount of time.”
22- “For me it’s very important to express my thoughts, the pictures I carry inside of me, maybe because it’s important to get them out.”
23- “Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like we do.”
24- “I wasn’t born with enough middle fingers.”
25- “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.”
26- “Enjoy your faults, that’s what separates you from the rest of the world.”
27- “If everyone can make music. Make better music.”
28- “I speak in reality. I don’t try to hide anything from anybody, and that’s the most dangerous thing about our music that parents are so afraid of.”
29- “I fear being like everyone I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. I love balancing between chaos and control with everything I do. I always have a fear of going one way or another, getting lost in something, or losing everything to get lost in. And I fear being a completely acceptable sheep in society.”
30- “People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves that we’ve got sitcoms with canned laughter that lets you know when to laugh if you’re too stupid to know when the joke is.”
31- “You should have to pass an IQ test before you breed. You have to take a driving test to operate vehicles and an SAT test to get into college. So why don’t you have to take some sort of test before you give birth to children? When I am President, that’s the first rule I will institute.”
32- “I’m not against god, I’m against the misuse of god.”
33- “I’ve always been paranoid about the police, because even when I’m not doing anything illegal I’m thinking about doing something illegal.”
34- “I read all the great philosophers but most people just hear what they want to hear and it makes it easy for them to brand us devil worshippers.”
35- “I’ve never written songs about relationships. I’ve written songs about how I feel. The songs are more about me, than another person. That’s the way I like to look at it.”
36- “Thinking for yourself – that’s scarier than any devil image.”
37- “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.”
38- “Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised”
39- “I never said to be like me, I say be yourself and make a difference”
40- “Find what you are afraid of, face it, and then you won’t be afraid of it anymore.”
41- “My goal isn’t to make money, it’s to try and survive and make a point.”
42- “In the end we’re all Springer guests, really, we just haven’t been on the show”
43- “The imagination is precious. Don’t lose it. Don’t lose the child in you.”
44- “It isn’t hard to find a person whom I could fall in love with, to give her romance. But it’s hard to find such a person who would understand your view on life, accept who you really are and would truly care for you.”
45- “What doesn’t kill you is gonna leave a scar.”
46- “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”
47- “That becomes the revolution, to be idealistic enough that you think you can change the world, and what you find is you can’t change anything but yourself.”
48- “People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.”
49- “Art gives people a reason to be alive.”
50- “We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.”
51- “I believe in dreams. I believe that every night on the planet everything that is, was and can be is dreamt. I believe that what happens in dreams is no different no less important than what happens in the waking world. I believe that dreams are the closest equvalent present-day mankind has to trime travel.”
52- “You can’t force someone to see the truth, just like you can’t force a blind man to see.”
53- “When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.”
54- “Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I’m afraid that they’re going to leave.”
55- “When you’re taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, what value does that put on love?”
56- “If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren’t your friends.”
57- “That becomes the revolution, to be idealistic enough that you think you can change the world, and what you find is you can’t change anything but yourself.”
58- “Having an avatar doesn’t give you an identity, and having a persona online doesn’t make you a personality either.”
59- “Art should never be an answer but a question.”
60- “I was becoming the cold, emotionally crippled monster I always wanted to be, and I wasn’t so sure I liked it. But it was too late. The metamorphosis was already well under way”
61- “If you act like a rock star you will be treated like one.”
62- “I think that’s all a form of wanting to let go, of wanting to get out… It’s not something easily described or understood.”
63- “You get depressed because you know that you’re not what you should be.”
64- “When you’re taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?”
65- “Anyone I may have used should feel happy that they even had a use. It’s better than being useless.”
66- “If you really feel hatred for someone, and kind of send it their way, then it’s out of your system and in their hands. I always think it’s therapeutic.”
67- “You can find inspiration for man’s behaviour wherever you look.”
68- “Art gives me the freedom I don’t have when I make music.”
69- “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…”
70- “Music is the strongest form of magic.”
71- “Man’s greatest fear is chaos.”
72- “I am a character, so that’s the problem. There are many, many levels to how I behave. Some people might associate being Marilyn Manson as having lipstick on, but I don’t really have some sort of other lifestyle.”
73- “Marilyn Manson is a mockery of American pop culture.”
74- “I refuse to say things behind people’s backs.”
75- “When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed”
76- “We don’t like to kill our unborn; we need them to grow up and fight our wars”
77- “I’m chaos, I’ve always been chaos, my point on Earth is chaos.”
78- “If things are too perfect, people are always so afraid that it’s going to change, so they ruin it themselves.”
79- “There’s a big difference, I discovered, between wanting to die and not wanting to live. When you want to die, you at least have a goal. When you don’t want to live, you’re really just empty. That’s the point I was at before I was able to make.”
80- “Art, to me, is a question. It should never be an answer.”
81- “Music is the strongest form of magic.”
82 “People don’t necessarily confide in one another to get something off their chest. They want something: reassurance, which is a hard gift to give convincingly.”
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