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Strangely Enough A Lot Of My Ideals Are Christian In A Sense But I Don't Like The Way That Religion Is Portrayed In America But, I Think, The Album "antichrist Superstar" Really Expresses, When You Look At The Lyrics It Expresses, How I Feel. I Mean It's Based In Individuality And, Strength And Believe In Yourself, Believe In, You're Your Own God.

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Marilyn Manson

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Strangely Enough A Lot Of My Ideals Are Christian In A Sense But I Don't Like The Way That Religion Is Portrayed In America But, I Think, The Album "antichrist Superstar" Really Expresses, When You Look At The Lyrics It Expresses, How I Feel. I Mean It's Based In Individuality And, Strength And Believe In Yourself, Believe In, You're Your Own God.

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For Me It's Very Important To Express My Thoughts, The Pictures I Carry Inside Of Me, Maybe Because It's Important To Get Them Out.

Stop Praying. Start Thinking.

There's A Big Difference, I Discovered, Between Wanting To Die And Not Wanting To Live. When You Want To Die, You At Least Have A Goal. When You Don't Want To Live, You're Really Just Empty. That's The Point I Was At Before I Was Able To Make.

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If You Dont Educate Your Kids... I Will.

If Someone Listens To Our Music, And It Makes Them Creative, That Makes Me Happier Than Anything.

Sometimes Hate Is Not Enough To Turn This All To Ashes, Together As One And Against All Others, Break All Of Their Wings To Make Sure It Crashes.

If One More 'journalist' Makes A Cavalier Statement About Me And My Band, I Will Personally Or With My Fans' Help, Greet Them At Their Home And Discover Just How Much They Believe In Their Freedom Of Speech.

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If You're Gonna Pretend To Be Something, Then You Have To At Least Live Up To What It Is.

I've Always Been Paranoid About The Police, Because Even When I'm Not Doing Anything Illegal, I'm Thinking About Doing Something Illegal. So, Whenever I'm Around A Cop, I Get Uncomfortable And Nervous, Worried That I'll Say The Wrong Thing Or Look So Guilty They'll Arrest Me Anyway. Being Completely Out Of My Mind On Drugs Doesn't Help The Situation Any.

I Went To One Aa Meeting And I Got Asked For An Autograph.

I Am Truly Amazed That After All This Time, Religious Groups Still Need To Attack Entertainment And Use These Tragedies As A Pitiful Excuse For Their Own Self-serving Publicity. In Response To Their Protests, I Will Provide A Show Where I Balance My Songs With A Wholesome Bible Reading. This Way, Fans Will Not Only Hear My So-called, Violent Point Of View, But We Can Also Examine The Virtues Of Wonderful 'christian' Stories Of Disease, Murder, Adultery, Suicide And Child Sacrifice. Now That Seems Like 'entertainment' To Me.

All The Drugs In The World Won't Save Us From Ourselves.

I Wish That My Life Could Be Like The Movies, Like Bonnie And Clyde Or The Hunger Or Harold And Maude. And... It Can Be! It Maybe Just Takes Somebody Else Who Is As Fearless As You. It Takes A Person Who Will Not Hesitate.

In A Sense, Terrorism Blossomed In The Advent Of Television. Television Promotes Terrorism In Religion And In Politics.

Man Is Still At The Learning Stage, And Mankind Is So Arrogant To Think That He's The Highest Form Of Evolution On Earth. There's So Much Of The Brain That We Still Don't Use, And That's All I Ever Try To Do - Go To The Next Level

The Whole Concept Of This Band Is To Present The Ugly Truth About Society - Warts And All, And Let The Chips Fall Where They May.

I Say No To Drugs, But They Don't Listen.

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Having An Avatar Doesn't Give You An Identity, And Having A Persona Online Doesn't Make You A Personality Either.

I'm Everything They Are Afraid Of. Everything They Hate. Everything They Try To Hide And A Lot More. Besides, I Speak My Mind And Show People What's Out There In Reality.

When You Get To Heaven, You Will Wish You Were In Hell.

God Is Just A Statistics.

We Don't Like To Kill Our Unborn; We Need Them To Grow Up And Fight Our Wars.

This Isn't A Mob, Won't Need To Change The Names. Everyone Around You Has Murdered Someone, Something Sacred. There Isn't One Nail Without Dirt Under It. There Isn't Any White Cotton Panties That Aren't Soaked And Stained Red. It's Better To Push Something When It's Slipping, Than To Risk Being Dragged Down.

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.

When I Was A Kid I Really Didn't Have My Own Opinions And Then Sort Of Transformed Into This Angel Which Is Really Marilyn Manson And Then The Final Stage Is Antichrist Superstar Which Is The More Nihilistic, Totalitarian Element In Everybody's Personality, That, Is A Real Struggle On The Album And In My Life, Between That Power.

I Fall In Love Very Easily.

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There's A Lot Of Talk In Some Of The Other Versions Of The Bible, The Hebrew Versions, And Things About The End Of The World Not Being A Punishment From God, But Being An Invitation From Mankind. That Mankind Has To Invite Its Own Destruction. And I Think That's Very True, And It's Almost Very American. I Think That's The Type Of Society We're In And It's People's Very Fear Of The Antichrist That Has Created It

I Was Married To Someone Who Wanted Me To Change. Become More Adult, More Responsible. I Began Not To Like Myself, Not Like What I Do. I Lost My Identity. Everything Began Collapsing Around Me.

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.

I'm Just Here For The Narcotics.

The Idea Of Heaven Is Christianity's Way Of Creating A Hell On Earth.

Comedians Have A Huge Carte Blanche And The Ability To Get Away With Saying A Lot Of Things.

I Often Obsess So Much About Things That I Can't Get Done, That I Ruin Other Things.

Are People Raised To Be Villains Or Vilified Like I Have Become?

People Love To Judge, As Long As They Have Somebody Else To Judge They Don't Give In And Answer With Hate Would Drag Me Down, It Would Simply Put Me Into The Same Position They Are, I Don't Believe That Their Position Is An Enviable One!

Ultimately, Because I'm An Artist, I Can't Ever Consider Myself A Nihilist, So I Suppose I'm Optimistic.

Finding Someone Who's Willing To Drown With You Creates A Situation Where You No Longer Want To Drown.

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If Things Are Too Perfect, People Are Always So Afraid That It's Going To Change, So They Ruin It Themselves.

I Don't Want To Feel Like I've Matured. That's A Stupid Word That I Never Want To Use.

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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.

Nothing's Gonna Change The World, Nothing's Gonna Change The World. There Was Lennon And A Happy Gun, There Were Words On The Pavement.

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There's Days When I'd Love Everybody To Relize That Things Have Gone Too Far, And We Need To Be Born Again...but There Are Other Days When I Think The World Deserves To Be Destroyed. Why Should I Help Anybody? Everybody's Stepped On Me My Whole Life.

You Have To Be Saved To Get Into Heaven....you Only Have To Be You To Get Into Hell.

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. I Was The Only Person They Had Working There.

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I Don't Care If Your World Is Ending Today Because I Wasn't Invited To It Anyway.

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As A Kid I Was, Constantly Terrorized With The Idea Of Armageddon And The Antichrist And Things Like That And As I Got Older, I Realized That, Something Like Antichrist Is The Collective Disbelief In God.

Thinking For Yourself - That's Scarier Than Any Devil Image.

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Everything Is Acting.

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 Was Becoming The Cold, Emotionally Crippled Monster I Always Wanted To Be, And I Wasn’t So Sure I Liked It. But It Was Too Late. The Metamorphosis Was Already Well Under Way.

When You Grow Up In America Things Like Christianity Waters Down Your Feeling... When You're Taught To Love Everybody, Taught To Love You're Enemies, What Value Does That Put On Love?

Christians Are A Lot Like Dinosaurs - About To Become Extinct.

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It's Better To Use A Curse Word Than To Hurt Somebody Else, I Find.

I'm Not Anything Like Brad Pitt Or Antonio Banderas, But Maybe It's The Taboo Element Of My Image, Which Is Almost Deathlike, That Attracts Them. I Should Be The Last Person That [people] Should Be Attracted To.

I Don't Expect Everyone To Get Something Deep Out Of It. Some People Can Just Listen To The Music, Or Get Their Aggressions Out, But I Think With Any Great Painting Or Movie, Album Or Whatever It Is, It's Better If People Can Take What They Need From It. That They're Not Forced To Get Some Particular Message.

My Fans Make Me Feel As Young As They Are. We Share The Same Spirit And I Share Their Outlook On Life

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I Fall In Love With Everything I Also Hate Everything. It’s Very Hard To Be A Misanthrope And A Romantic.

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I Don't Know Which Me That I Love, Got No Reflection.

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.

These People Are Artists. These People Are Musicians. They're Taking It Out And Trying To Express It That Way.

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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.

I Read All The Great Philosophers But Most People Just Hear What They Want To Hear And It Makes It Easy For Them To Brand Us Devil Worshippers.

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Is Adult Entertainment Killing Our Children? Or Is Killing Our Children Entertaining Our Adults?

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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.

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.

I Don't Think That My Lyrics Are Over-laced With Profanity, Because I Myself Don't Speak Using A Lot Of Profanity In Normal Conversation. But I Think When You're Making Something Aggressive And You Need To Get A Point Across, If You're Angry, Sometimes Profanity Is Necessary. It's Better To Use A Curse Word Than To Hurt Somebody Else, I Find.

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I Am A Character, So That's The Problem. There Are Many, Many Levels To How I Behave. Some People Might Associate Being Marilyn Manson As Having Lipstick On, But I Don't Really Have Some Sort Of Other Lifestyle.

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What Nearly Everybody In My Life Had Misunderstood About Satanism Was That It Is Not About Ritual Sacrifices, Digging Up Graves And Worshipping The Devil. The Devil Doesn't Exist. Satanism Is About Worshipping Yourself, Because You Are Responsible For Your Own Good And Evil.

Your Beautiful Don't Let Anyone Tell You Different

As You Keep Getting More Popular, People Are Continually Wanting More From You And It Seems To Me That All They Want In The End Is Your Death.

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This Is The Culture You're Raising Your Kids In. Don't Be Surprised If It Blows Up In Your Face.

I Heard This Album As Finished, I Heard It In Dreams . . . It Was Like The Revelations Of John The Baptist Or Something.

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For Me, The Key To Longevity - And Immortality, In A Sense - Has To Do With Transformation.

I Put Out A Lot Of Ideas In The Lyrics And The Way I Do My Things. There's A Lot Of Ideas Floatin' Around And People Who Know What It Is. People Will Pick It Up If They Know What To Pick Up.

When I Was A Kid I Think The Thing I Remembered Most About The Exorcist Was Linda Blair Being Possessed By The Devil, And How Scary That Was. It Had A Lot Of Parallels For Me Because The Movie Was Challenging Different Ideas About Faith And It Was Looking At Religion In A Darker Way. Growing Up I Was Afraid Of Being Possessed By The Devil, As An Adult I'm Afraid Of Being Possessed By The World, By Ignorance, And Not Holding On To My Beliefs And What I Feel Strongly About.

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Sometimes You Feel Awkward Being What You're Best At, You Feel Like You Have To Be Something New.

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My Dream Of An Apocalypse That Was The Antichrist Superstar Has Unfolded. I Could See That They Only Looked And Acted Like Humans, But They Had Lost Their Souls, They Were Mechanical Animals

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I'm A Teen Distortion, Survived Abortion.

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I'd Like To Think That I'd Helped People All Over The World To Question The Things They Otherwise Would Have Accepted As The Truth. I'd Also Like To Think That I'd Charmed Them A Bit With My Lovely Vocal Stylings And The Baring Of My Lovely Arse.

I Didn't Go To Guitar School And I Don't Know How To Play Chords, But I Can Do It In My Own Way And I Think Sometimes That Will Piss Off Some Guitar Players Who Sit Around Playing Their Stuff All Day Long And Then There Are People Who Like That.

I'm Completely Unlike A Lot Of Other Performers In The Past Who Have Been Forgiven Or Come To Terms With The Real World Because They Tell Everyone Their Performance Is 'just A Show.' And So, People Say, 'oh, It's Ok Then. We Don't Care. He's Not Really A Bad Person.' It's Not Just A Show For Me. It's My Life.

Marilyn Manson Has Always Been Intended To Confuse Some, Anger Some And Make Some People Feel At Home. There's No Way To Misunderstand What I Do - But Everyone Can Understand It Differently. That's The Only Way I've Learned To Embrace Art - It Has To Be A Question Mark, Not An Answer.

When All Of Your Wishes Are Granted, Many Of Your Dreams Will Be Destroyed.

I Try And Take Everyone's Ideals, Common Morals, Flip Them Around, Make People Look At Them Differently, Question Them, So That You're Not Always Taking Things For Granted.

You Should Have To Pass An Iq Test Before You Breed. You Have To Take A Driving Test To Operate Vehicles And An Sat Test To Get Into College. So Why Don’t You Have To Take Some Sort Of Test Before You Give Birth To Children? When I Am President, That’s The First Rule I Will Institute.

When People Say 'i Want To Be Like You', I Tell Them If You Want To Be Like Me, Then Be Yourself.

I Have Something That Makes Me Happy On Some Level And This Is A Good Way For Me To Deal With The Torment Of That Teenage Life Gave Me

For Me, It's Never Been An Ego Situation Where I Have Been "i'm The Boss; Expletive You." It's Always Been A Situation Where Someone Comes To Me And Says "i Can't Tolerate Working With You Anymore" And I Would Admit Sometimes I Wouldn't Blame Them For That. But I Also Sometimes Think I'm Not That Difficult To Figure Out. I Don't Really Know What Has Driven People To Be So Angry And Bitter - People Like My Old Keyboard Player Pogo, Who I've Known For Such A Long Time. I Feel Bad For Him, But There Are Grievances With Everything.

There's A Lot Of Great Stories And A Lot Of Great Values In The Holy Bible, And I Actually Relate To A Lot Of Them. The Character, The Idea, Or The Part Of My Personality That I Describe As Antichrist Superstar, Is A Lot Like Lucifer In The Bible. Someone Who Was Kicked Out Of Heaven Because He Wanted To Be God

Art Gives Me The Freedom I Don't Have When I Make Music.

If People Really Stopped And Realized How Much Art And Creative People Move The World Versus Politics And Religion, I Mean It’s Not Even Up For Debate. An Artist At Least Creates Things, Puts Things Into The World. Where As These Other People Are Destroying Things, Taking Things Out Of The World.

I Don't Say Things To Be Offensive; I Say Things Because They're Funny To Me. It Amuses Me.

I'm My Most Creative Between 3 And 5 A.m. That's The Way I've Always Been

What I Know Is My Music Gets Blamed For School Shootings.

School Shooting

People Are Too Lazy And Too Stupid To Think For Themselves That We've Got Sitcoms With Canned Laughter That Lets You Know When To Laugh If You're Too Stupid To Know When The Joke Is.

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.

We Are Our Own Wicked Gods With Little 'g's' And Big Dicks, Sadistic And Constantly Inflicting A Slow Demise.

You'll Understand When I'm Dead.

Libido, Fascination, Too Much Oral Defecation. White Trash Get Down On Your Knees, Time For Cake And Sodomy.

I Used To Have Nightmares About The Antichrist - What Would Happen, Where It Would Come From, And Who It Would Be.

Sometimes Music, Movies And Books Are The Only Things That Let Us Feel Like Someone Else Feels Like We Do.

It Happens Every Millennium. Now More Than Ever, Man Threatens To Destroy Himself With His Own Technology, And All The Ideas Contained Within Big Brother Exist Within Little Brother. We're All Watching Ourselves. We Are Our Own Oppressors. This Is A Time When An Idea Like God Is Needed More Than Ever. For Me, I've Found That God Exists Within Yourself And What You Create. The Only Thing We've Got To Look Forward To Is Saving Ourselves

I've Never Written Songs About Relationships. I've Written Songs About How I Feel. The Songs Are More About Me, Than Another Person. That's The Way I Like To Look At It.

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 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.

If You Want To Find Out Who Your Real Friends Are, Sink The Ship. The First Ones To Jump Aren't Your Friends.

Who Your Friends Are

You Have To Really Swallow Your Pride And Admit That You Want To Make A Comeback. And That Means That You Weren't At Your Best And I Feel Like I Stopped Being Who I Needed To Be. When I Started Making This Record "born Villain", I Didn't Want To Be What I Used To Be But I Certainly Didn't Want To Be What I Was At The Time. I Knew That I Was Supposed To Be Something Better Then What I Was. I Feel That I Am Close To Being What I'm Supposed To Be And Am Enjoying What I'm Doing Here.

Jesus Is A Half-naked Guy, Hanging, Nailed To A Cross, And Then People Wear That Around Their Neck, And Then Those Are The People That Are Upset About Violence In Movies.

I've Always Had A Desire To Be Provocative And To Make People Think, But It Wouldn't Be Any Challenge For Me Just To Be Shocking. That Is Where It Begins For Me, Not Where It Stops. And I Could Be Much More Shocking. I Think I've Adopted A Sense Of Subtlety. I Don't Sit Around Wondering How I Can Make Myself Even Stranger To The World. I've Simply Evolved Into The Monster I Created, And I'm Quite Happy With It.

If They Think That An Artist Can Destroy Their Faith, Then Their Faith Is Rather Fragile.

It's The Whole Nietzche 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'.

This Question Is Posed To Mayself, Am I A Man Who Thinks He's An Angel? Or An Angel Who Thinks He's A Man?

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The Idea Of Marilyn Manson Has Been Brewing In My Head, One Form Or Another, Since I Was About 12 Years Old At A Christian High School In Canton, Ohio.

It's Always About Being Yourself And Not Being Ashamed Of Being Different Or Thinking Different.

Being Different

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.

It's My Job To Be The Pierrot, The Clown, In The Theatrical Sense.

I Decided To Make Music Again At A Time When I Couldn't Have Had More Obstacles.

That Becomes The Revolution, To Be Idealistic Enough That You Think You Can Change The World, And What You Find Is You Can't Change Anything But Yourself.

Find What You Are Afraid Of, Face It, And Then You Won't Be Afraid Of It Anymore.

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.

The Difference Between Me As Brian Warner Or Marilyn Manson Is Just Words. Same Personality, Sensibility, Sense Of Humor, Behavior. He Is Me.

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