Marilyn Manson Quotes

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.

I think art is the only thing that's spirtual in the world. And I refuse to be 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 needed to stop being victimized by my own weaknesses and insecurities about other people,

Our relationship, however, soon went awry. Occasionally, something will happen that will change your opinion of someone irrevocably, that wil shatter the ideal you've built up around a person and force you to see them for the fallible and human creature they really are.

I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference.

Whatever doesn't kill you, it's gonna leave a scar

People don’t keep journals for themselves. They keep them for other people, like a secret they don’t want to tell but they want everyone to know.

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.

Paintings are seldom guilty and often framed for crimes they did not commit. Some cover holes-holes in walls, holes in lives. Some make holes-in wallets, holes in hearts...in negative space.

[...] extremes — whether good or bad — don't fit into society's definition of normality

I fall in love with everything I also hate everything. It's very hard to be a misanthrope and a romantic.

But what's real? You can't find the truth. You just pick the lie you like best. As long as you know that everything's a lie, you can't hurt yourself.

Music is the strongest form of magic.

I`ve always felt a kinship with Willy Wonka. Even at that age, I could tell that he was a flawed hero, an icon for the forbidden. The forbidden in this case was chocolate, a metaphor for indulgence and anything you`re not supposed to have, be it sex, drugs, alcohol or pornography.

In the end we're all Springer guests, really, we just haven't been on the show.