you can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best

"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."

"i think art is about creation, so it is spirituality. forget about religion, whatever you're doing, as long as you're making something, putting it in the world, that to me is spirituality."

"society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats for its problems. well, here I am."

"where would you like to live?
your dream world, or your real world?
if you could live in the middle, thats what we'd like to do.."

"you have to be what you do."

"i m just realising i cant create a crazier metaphor than what i am already living so art made me reaccept myself cos i started to get to a place where i didnt like or believe in myself."

"people always say you have a responsibility being a role model, role models are mannequins. i am a role villian. you have to fuck shit up, you have to be bad, you have to take alot of abuse"

“When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.”

“When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?”

“It's the whole Nietzsche philosophy of you are your own God. That's why I debase myself in the concerts and tell people to spit on me. I'm saying to them 'You are no different from me'.”

"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 best."

"They'll see it. And it doesn't matter if they don't. It's only Rock 'n' Roll. But I do intend to move more into the Mainstream. Marilyn Manson is just the First phase."

"I totally believe in monogamy with the right person."

- Marilyn Manson (all of the above)

long live marilyn.