01c. 1989 ADThe difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.Marilyn Manson / quote ↗
02c. 1989 ADI'm so famous, people expect me to sell as many records as Celine Dion or Puff Daddy.Marilyn Manson / quote ↗
03c. 1989 ADAll the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you're made to feel guilty for being human, then you're going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can't escape from.Marilyn Manson / quote ↗
04c. 1989 ADMy first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism.Marilyn Manson / quote ↗
06c. 1989 ADSometimes you feel awkward being what you're best at, you feel like you have to be something new.Marilyn Manson / quote ↗
08c. 1989 ADWhen you want to die, you at least have a goal. You're aiming for something. It's not a good goal, but at least you want something. And you've got anger and fear, but at least you're feeling something.Marilyn Manson / quote ↗
09c. 1989 ADMarilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.Marilyn Manson / quote ↗
10c. 1989 ADJesus 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.Marilyn Manson / quote ↗
11c. 1989 ADI wish that my life could be like the movies, like 'Bonnie and Clyde' or 'The Hunger' or 'Harold and Maude.' And... it can be! It maybe just takes somebody else who is as fearless as you. It takes a person who will not hesitate.Marilyn Manson / quote ↗
13c. 1989 ADWhen I turned about 14, I developed a friendship with this guy whose mom was the secretary to Ernest Angley, the faith healer, who's very popular in the Midwest. He had a television show, and he was sort of like Liberace mixed with Jerry Falwell - very glitzy, very high-tech.Marilyn Manson / quote ↗
14c. 1989 ADI haven't looked at marriage in the conventional sense, as far as settling down. I look at it as putting faith in another person, which has always been hard for me to do.Marilyn Manson / quote ↗
16c. 1989 ADI am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.Marilyn Manson / quote ↗
17c. 1989 ADI don't say things to be offensive I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.Marilyn Manson / quote ↗
18c. 1989 ADI can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.Marilyn Manson / quote ↗
19c. 1989 ADMy 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.Marilyn Manson / quote ↗
20c. 1989 ADI 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.Marilyn Manson / quote ↗
22c. 1989 ADI 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!'Marilyn Manson / quote ↗
23c. 1989 ADI was a pizza delivery boy at the Pizza Oven in Canton. I wanted to get fired so bad, I actually wrecked the delivery car, but they wouldn't fire me because I was the only person they had working there.Marilyn Manson / quote ↗
24c. 1989 ADIf a kid is old enough to drive a car or buy a gun, isn't he old enough to be held personally responsible for what he does with his car or gun? Or if he's a teenager, should someone else be blamed because he isn't as enlightened as an eighteen-year-old?Marilyn Manson / quote ↗
