Marilyn Manson Quotes - Page 4

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

Art is a big question mark.

I believe that you are not stuck with a pre-destiny. I believe that there is ways to see all these things that are laid down in front of you and where you belong and to smack yourself in the face when you realize that you've strayed off your path and get back to where your path is.

I think guilt is the biggest problem in America, people are always feeling guilty about being themselves. You can't say what you want because it's not politically correct. You can't look like you want because you, the people at the office aren't going to like you and so on.

We are the things and shapes to come, your freedom's not free of dumb.

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.

I'm a confession that is waiting to be heard

It's shocking to me that it's easier to buy a gun at Wal-Mart than it is to buy my record.

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.

I was never afriad of what was under the bed. I wanted it but never got it. I became it.

If your reality is the same as my reality, then you're in trouble.

Law is only what is popular. Not what's right or wrong.

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

There is good and evil within all of us, and I enjoy searching to bring that out through my music. I like it that there are questions brought out by my music. People must look inside themselves for the answers

If you intend to create something that people will observe and listen to, you've got to listen to them first.

Whether you interpret the Bible as literature or as the final word of whatever God may be, Christianity has given us an image of death and sexuality that we have based our culture around. A half-naked dead man hangs in most homes and around our necks, and we have just taken that for granted all of our lives.

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.

If you lose emotion, and you gain it back, you realise that hate and love are very important to distribute properly. So I'm not going to waste any kind of emotion on things that aren't related to me.

Everything is acting.

I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you're a person that matters.

We don't like to kill our unborn; we need them to grow up and fight our wars.

I often obsess so much about things that I can't get done, that I ruin other things.

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

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.

We are our own wicked gods with little 'g's' and big dicks, sadistic and constantly inflicting a slow demise.