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
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.
If things are too perfect, people are always so afraid that it's going to change, so they ruin it themselves.
There's a big difference, I discovered, between wanting to die and not wanting to live,
You have to be saved to get into heaven....you only have to be you to get into hell.
Music is the strongest form of magic.
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
There was a saying that I saw on a packet of sugar and I think anyone can apply it to their life: 'Don't bother telling the truth to a friend because he already knows it, and don't bother telling the truth to an enemy because he won't believe it'.
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? Everybody's stepped on me my whole life. I've put on this crown... but I'm not sure if I want it.
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.
I like zombie movies. I like 'The Walking Dead;' I like the metaphor of it, simply because when we go with the zombie concept - if you're bitten by a zombie, you don't transform into something else like a vampire or a werewolf or whatever. You become something that's not you.
It wasn't anything spectacular or acrobatic. It was something I'd do a million times a show.
I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference.
I don't have anything against Simon Cowell and 'The X Factor.'
I was an extra on 21 Jump Street when I was 19 years old.