Music is the strongest form of magic.
Marilyn Manson
When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.
All 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.
In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it.
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.
Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself.
I'm not a role model. I'm a role villain.
If Satan wasn't around, churches would go out of business.
Everything I was afraid of when I was growing up, I've become. I've taken on my nightmares, like the devil and the end of the world, and I've become those things.
Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.
Don't ever empty the bucket of mystery. Never let people define what you do. It's not about zigging when you should zag. It's not about doing something unprecedented and unpredictable. It's just about never being a word, or something that is not in the process of transformation.
Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?
To admit you want to have a comeback means you have to admit you weren't what you were supposed to be. You dropped below your own standard.
People only hate what they see in themselves.
It's better to use a curse word than to hurt somebody else, I find.
I care about the people I know and love the most, but I also care about what the people I don't know think in the sense that I want them to think and understand me in a certain way. I don't base my life around either one, and I don't change the way I live to please either set of people, but I do care.
Finding someone who's willing to drown with you creates a situation where you no longer want to drown.
A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.
If you lose who you are, what do you have?
Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like we do.
I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to 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.
Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.
I like to make people think differently than they did before I walked in the room.
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 create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way.
When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?
The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at.
For me, art is supposed to be a question mark.
Someday, when I manage to finally figure out how to take care of myself, then I'll consider taking care of someone else.
I feel like I've dreamed half of my life that hasn't happened yet, so a lot of times I'm going along, and I do stuff, and I know that I've done it. I have deja vus more than I have regular experiences. If half of your day is a deja vu, then you start to wonder, 'What is real and what isn't?'
In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics.
I think everybody's got a presentation. Everybody looks a certain way because they want to convey a certain image. You look a certain way because you want people to listen to you in a certain way.
Man's greatest fear is chaos.
I believe that you are not stuck with a pre-destiny. I believe that there is ways to see all these things that are laid down in front of you and where you belong and to smack yourself in the face when you realize that you've strayed off your path and get back to where your path is.
If you want break it down, rock and roll is about saying what you can't say in normal life to girls, so you have to say it in songs.
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?
If I were in a room full of people, I'd rather be the person who is more interesting than the one who is wallpaper.
The hero is never the star of the story.
When 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.
Art gives people a reason to be alive.
I'm someone who is open-minded to new experiences because they teach you new things.
If you lose emotion, and you gain it back, you realise that hate and love are very important to distribute properly. So I'm not going to waste any kind of emotion on things that aren't related to me.
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.
There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.
I often obsess so much about things that I can't get done, that I ruin other things.
Johnny Depp is like a brother to me. We have matching tattoos on our backs - Charles Baudelaire, the flowers of evil, this giant skeleton thing. It's kind of a secret. People say to us, 'Why did you get that?' And we say, 'No reason.'
To me, Satan ultimately represents rebellion.
This is the culture you're raising your kids in. Don't be surprised if it blows up in your face.
Everything is acting.
I did vote Obama. But I've never believed in the authenticity of the two-party system.
