Quotes

“I'm my most creative between 3 and 5 a.m. That's the way I've always been.” Marilyn Manson

“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 what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.” Marilyn Manson

“The person who thinks I worship the devil and kill animals is just as important as someone who makes an interpretation that's closer to what I intended.” Marilyn Manson

“The point is that life for me is not going to be the way it is for everyone else. I have a fog machine and movie lights in my bedroom.” Marilyn Manson

“There's a certain group of people who are always going to dislike me and disagree with whatever I say.” Marilyn Manson

“These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way.” Marilyn Manson

“Ultimately, because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic.” Marilyn Manson

“Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.” Marilyn Manson

“I 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

“I decided to make music again at a time when I couldn't have had more obstacles.” Marilyn Manson

“I used to have nightmares about the Antichrist - what would happen, where it would come from, and who it would be.” Marilyn Manson

“I'm not going to be some kind of PC, tree-hugger.” Marilyn Manson

“I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity.” Marilyn Manson

“It's my job to be the Pierrot, the clown, in the theatrical sense.” Marilyn Manson

“Living in Hollywood, it's easy to have someone flatter you. That doesn't help me.” Marilyn Manson

“Marilyn Manson is a criticism of gimmickry, while being itself a gimmick.” Marilyn Manson

“Marilyn Manson is a mockery of American pop culture.” 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

“My 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

“Rumors, stories... I'm used to them. I got my ribs removed, I was on 'The Wonder Years'... You know there's a different story every day.” Marilyn Manson

“The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.” Marilyn Manson

“What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.” Marilyn Manson

“When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.” Niccolo Machiavelli

“Politics have no relation to morals.” Niccolo Machiavelli

“Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.” Niccolo Machiavelli

“It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.” Niccolo Machiavelli

“No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.” Niccolo Machiavelli

“The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.” Niccolo Machiavelli

“There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.” Niccolo Machiavelli

“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.” Niccolo Machiavelli