The imagination is precious. Don't lose it. Don't lose the child in you.
When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, what value does that put on love?
The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth.
I 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 ther...
I don't say things to be offensive I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.
Watching movies is my one distraction.
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.
My first dissatisfaction has always been with religion.
Find what you are afraid of, face it, and then you won't be afraid of it anymore.
My 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...
Marilyn 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...
My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you've got the ability to believe.
I never said to be like me, I say be yourself and make a difference.
I 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 p...
We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
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.
The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.
Man's greatest fear is chaos.
You might find me outside with a can of hair spray, spraying it with the hope that the sun will burn a hole in the Earth. Another part of me hopes people will grow up and evolve and get smarter. That'...
If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing wh...