445 Quotes by Marilyn Manson

I say no to drugs, but they don't listen.

He's just simply John5 because he's the fifth person that we've hired. In the future, everyone will have numbers instead of names

I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.

It wouldn't even make you gay if you had sex with Johnny Depp, 'cause it's Johnny Depp.

My first dissatisfaction has always been with religion.

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.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself.

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.

To me, Columbine is just as awful as Vietnam, and it's just as awful as anything else.