Marilyn Manson Quotes - Page 9

I wanna outrace the speed of pain.

I can't turn off the way I think, and that's essentially who I am, who anybody is.

Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats, well here I am.

My pain's not ashamed to repeat itself

My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you've got the ability to believe.

I just don't like when there's a rumor that says I'm dating someone who is below my standards. But when I got divorced, my ex-wife said I was spending all my time with Lindsay Lohan and Angelina Jolie. I was like, 'Thank you for the big ups!'

I think everybody's got a presentation. Everybody looks a certain way because they want to convey a certain image. You look a certain way because you want people to listen to you in a certain way.

I believe a lot about psychology, or I'd like to learn about it - I'm someone who likes to learn about everything.

I don't think that my lyrics are over-laced with profanity, because I myself don't speak using a lot of profanity in normal conversation. But I think when you're making something aggressive and you need to get a point across, if you're angry, sometimes profanity is necessary. It's better to use a curse word than to hurt somebody else, I find.

I try and take everyone's ideals, common morals, flip them around, make people look at them differently, question them, so that you're not always taking things for granted.

I remember growing up, saying you’re an artist it sounds pretentious but now it’s one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself.

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

In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary.

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.

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.

When I was a kid I think the thing I remembered most about The Exorcist was Linda Blair being possessed by the devil, and how scary that was. It had a lot of parallels for me because the movie was challenging different ideas about faith and it was looking at religion in a darker way. Growing up I was afraid of being possessed by the devil, as an adult I'm afraid of being possessed by the world, by ignorance, and not holding on to my beliefs and what I feel strongly about.

Looking back, the only person that really surprised me was Chris Vrenna only because I've known him since 1992, and for him not to be able to say it to my face, "Hey, I don't want to do this anymore." Instead, he said "I'll see you tomorrow" and then he never came back. I find that strange. I don't know if he is afraid of me or thinks I'm going to beat him over the head with something. I'm not like that.

Why should we believe in a god, that doesnt believe in us?

Anything can be misinterpreted. People can look at Christ on a cross and think, This is an image of murder, this is violent, this has sexual imagery in it. And it just - I think it's my job as an artist to be out there pushing people's buttons and making them question everything.

My mom was always a big fan of Elvis. She made me listen to Elvis when I was a kid. I hated it. And I think now I've kind of grown up to fill in some of the sort of controversy that he created back in his day, but in a much more extreme, modern sense.

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

I'm not anything like Brad Pitt or Antonio Banderas, but maybe it's the taboo element of my image, which is almost deathlike, that attracts them. I should be the last person that [people] should be attracted to.

I eat innocent meat, the house wife I will beat, the prolife I will kill. What you won't do, I will.

Fear is something I instill in other people, mostly young girls.

I don't need to drive. I have no business driving. I would never be able to find my keys.