Singer

Marilyn Manson is a mockery of American pop culture.

I don't try to be bad as much as I just am by nature.

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.

I haven't looked at marriage in the conventional sense, as far as settling down. I look at it as putting faith in another person, which has always been hard for me to do.

I can't turn off the way I think, and that's essentially who I am, who anybody is.

My goal isn't to make money, it's to try and survive and make a point.

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.

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.

On my albums, it's as though the parental advisory is built in.

It's better to use a curse word than to hurt somebody else, I find.

I've never treated anyone in my band like they're not on the same level as me. I'm not that kind of person.

I'm absolutely not looking for someone who agrees with me about everything or someone who wants to please me by believing what I believe.

To me, Satan ultimately represents rebellion.

I think people have to take responsibility for their own actions.

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.

Anybody who does not evolve can become a self-parody. I have to evolve on a daily basis just to keep my own interest in what I do.

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.

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.

I think confidence is the most appealing quality in any human being or any artist; that's what really attracts us to people.

I'm so famous, people expect me to sell as many records as Celine Dion or Puff Daddy.