Marilyn Manson Quotes

Art gives people a reason to be alive.

~ Marilyn Manson

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!'

~ Marilyn Manson

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 there.

~ Marilyn Manson

If 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

When you're in a relationship, if you just break it down to regular terms, people are attracted to something, and that's what they want you to be, and that's what you should just be, and for me, it's very simple - if I meet a girl and I say, 'This is what I like about you. Just continue. Every day.'

~ Marilyn Manson

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

~ Marilyn Manson

I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me.

~ Marilyn Manson

If one more 'journalist' makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally or with my fans' help, greet them at their home and discover just how much they believe in their freedom of speech.

~ Marilyn Manson

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

~ Marilyn Manson

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

~ Marilyn Manson

My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially because they didn't have a job that gave them a pension.

~ Marilyn Manson