Marilyn Manson

• "I wouldn't say a single word to them, I would listen to what they have to say and that's what no one did."
  • When asked what he would say to the two Columbine killers on Michael Moore's film Bowling for Columbine.

• "If I believed in an outside force that we wanted to call God - and I believe that there is one. I think God would appreciate what I say, because I can't see God wanting to create a world full of idiots."
  • Penthouse Magazine, May, 1997

• "I'm not against God. I'm against the Misuse of God."
  • Raygun Magazine, Dec/January, 1998

• "A long time ago, there was a man as misunderstood as we are and they nailed him to a fucking cross!"
  • Winston Salem, N.C. April 19, 1997

Attributed

• "Those who move beyond the albums title and the most blatant aspect of what I do, will then understand what I am trying to say."

• "The record is about seeing death and growing from it, and in the end, being strong and being alive."

• "I had a nightmare the other night that people were trying to stab me and shoot me and things like that. I dont know what gives me that dream, but I pay close attention to it."

• "Im not saying that when I perform I'm Barry Manilow, but Im also not killing kids and beating up dogs and things like that."

• "Ive never been and never will be a satan worshipper or someone who worships the devil."

• "Antichrist Superstar is also about me wanting to grow up and be something that people would adore...instead I grew up and became something that people hated."

• "Your familys and your teachers and your preacher, they didnt want you to come here tonight...They'd rather you be in church..but you ARE in church motherfuckers!"

• "Im thankful that I have two middle fingers.....I only wish I had more."

• "There's days when I'd love for everybody to realize that things have gone too far, and that we need to be born again so that we can appreciate the little things....then there's other days when I think the world deserves to be destroyed. Why should I help anybody? Everybodys stepped on me my whole life. I've put on this crown....but I'm not sure if I want it."

• "Why should we believe in a god that doesn't believe in us?"

• "As you keep getting more popular, people are continually wanting more from you and it seems to me that what they want in the end is your death."

• "It's like, I guess just being offended by how much everything suck, I can't help but to be in a bad mood all the time."

• "Everything you do is part of a plane plummeting towards our pitiful, dying earth. But your art, what you create is stepping onto the burning wing and forgetting silly things like life and death for a moment. Just to enjoy for one second a glimpse of beauty before you are reduced to ashes." --Marylin Manson

• "My fellow Americans, we will no longer be oppressed by the fascism of Christianity, and we will no longer be oppressed by the fascism of beauty. ‘Cause I see you all sitting out there trying your hardest not to be ugly...trying your hardest not to fit in...trying your hardest to earn your way into heaven...but let me ask you - do you wanna be in a place that’s filled with a bunch of assholes?!" - at the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards