Quotes
"They are tools of the devil...they really scare me, they are puppets controlled by the record company."
-Marilyn Manson (talking about Hanson)
"I like it as a book.Just like I like "The Cat In The Hat."
-Marilyn Manson (about the Bible)
"I've actually never been a fan of porno. I really never watch it unless I'm stuck in a hotel and that's the only channel you get."
-Marilyn Manson
"Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference."
-Marilyn Manson
"I view my job as being someone who is supposed to piss people off.I don't want to be just one-of-the-guys.I don't want to be just a smiling face you see on television presenting some vapid kind of easily-digestible garbage.This is rock and roll.I want to be a rock and roll star! Rock and roll is about shaking things up,making people act and react.That's what I do."
-Marilyn Manson
"You do what I do because you want attention. I don't want to over-analyze what I do,but it probablt is just a thinly-veiled cry for attention. I was just a kid-14 years old-when I first started putting on my mom's makeup and wearing Halloween masks in the summer. I knew I was different, but it was also my way of getting noticed. All this stuff I'm today is really no different-and no more harmful-than that.I just want the world to know I'm here."
-Marilyn Manson
Maybe I'm more healthy for this society than people want to admit."
-Marilyn Manson
"I fear being like everybody I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. I love balancing chaos and control with everything I do. I always have a fear of going one way or the other, getting lost in something, or loosing everything and not having something to get lost in... And I fear being a completely acceptable sheep in society."
-Marilyn Manson
"Well, the idea, I was writing a lot of lyrics five or six years ago and the name Marilyn Manson, I thought really describes everything that I had to say, you know, male and female, beauty and ugliness, and it was just very American. It was a statement on the American culture, the power that we give to icons like Marilyn Monroe and Charles Manson and since that's where it's always gone from there. It's about the paradox, uh, diametrically opposed archetypes."
-Marilyn Manson
We bounce back and forth between the extremities of good and evil and we end up most of the time in the gray area."
-Twiggy Ramirez
"I am very vain and I wear dresses more often off than on-stage!!!"
-Twiggy Ramirez
"In the world that I envision, Marilyn Manson isn't necessary. But that's not the world we live in."
-Marilyn Manson