Marilyn Manson
Marilyn Manson
Brian Hugh Warner, better known by his stage name Marilyn Manson, is an American musician, songwriter, actor, painter, singer, rapper, author, composer and former music journalist. He is known for his controversial stage personality and image as the lead singer of the band Marilyn Manson, which he co-founded with Daisy Berkowitz and of which he remains the only constant member. His stage name was formed by juxtaposing the names of two opposing American pop cultural icons; actress Marilyn Monroe and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth5 January 1969
CityCanton, OH
CountryUnited States of America
Marilyn Manson quotes about
If I had to do a record review, I'd say it's got a cannibal, consumption, obsessive, violent-sex, romance angle, but with an upbeat swing to it.
Occasionally, something will happen that will change your opinion of someone irrevocably, that will shatter the ideal you've built up around a person and force you to see them for the fallible and human creature that they really are.
Enjoy your faults, that's what separates you from the rest of the world.
If things are too perfect, people are always so afraid that it's going to change, so they ruin it themselves.
Sometimes you feel awkward being what you're best at, you feel like you have to be something new.
Good and evil go hand in hand, you can't seperate them....
We are a positive band and people aren't used to seeing the extreme negativity that we represent. I hope this record will have a positive effect on people. It's my personal study of looking at life. I came close to death and found my way back again. Our fans will understand.
Those who move beyond the album's title and the most blatent aspect of what I do will then understand what I am trying to say.
What would Marilyn Manson be if no one hated Marilyn Manson?
The only way I'd vote was if I was running. People could spend more valuable time buying rock albums, because it's obvious that music is more powerful than politics, or else the President wouldn't have to go on MTV to address anyone.
If you want break it down, rock and roll is about saying what you can't say in normal life to girls, so you have to say it in songs.
When I turned about 14, I developed a friendship with this guy whose mom was the secretary to Ernest Angley, the faith healer, who's very popular in the Midwest. He had a television show, and he was sort of like Liberace mixed with Jerry Falwell - very glitzy, very high-tech.
All of my heroes, like Dali, are people who pioneered various forms of cinema.
On my albums, it's as though the parental advisory is built in.