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.
Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed.
Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference.
I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference.
I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.
In the end we're all Jerry Springer Show guests, really, we just haven't been on the show.
Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?
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'.
Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.
Music is the strongest form of magic.
Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.
People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.
The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at.
The word 'Antichrist', to me, is the collective disbelief in god.
These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way.
They'll see it. And it doesn't matter if they don't. It's only Rock 'n' Roll. But I do intend to move more into the Mainstream. Marilyn Manson is just the First phase.
This is the culture you're raising your kids in. Don't be surprised if it blows up in your face.
We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
What happens someday if more people own my record than the bible? That will make me god because a lot more people believe in me than him? Because it's just about popularity. There are plenty of people in the world how have never heard of Jesus, while America takes him for granted.
When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.
When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?
In April 2007, Marilyn revealed he was seeing actress Evan Rachel Wood.
He helped name the band Jack Off Jill.
He made a cameo appearance as a doctor in the Murderdolls' music video "Dead in Hollywood", and also appears in the Nine Inch Nails music video "Starf*ckers, Inc." and also "Gave Up".
He portrayed a psychotic drag queen named Christina in the movie Party Monster which is based on the events leading up to and the murder of Angel Melendez by the infamous Michael Alig of club kid fame.
In a civil suit presented by Oakland County, MI, Manson was charged with sexual misconduct against another security officer, Joshua Keasler, during a concert in Detroit, Michigan on July 30, 2001. Oakland County originally filed assault & battery and criminal sexual misconduct charges, but the judge reduced the latter charge to misdemeanor disorderly conduct. Manson pleaded no contest to the reduced charges, paid a $4,000 fine, and later settled the lawsuit under undisclosed terms.
He has most recently been romantically linked to 19 year old actress Evan Rachel Wood, weeks after his pending divorce. He asked Evan Rachel Wood pose for a water colour painting and she also attended the opening of his new Hollywood art gallery, the Celebritarian Corporation Gallery of Fine Art in October 2006. At this time he was still married to Dita Von Teese.
He was #78 on VH1's 100 Greatest Artist of Hard Rock.
He has been romantically linked to Melissa "Missi" Romero, Traci Lords and Jenna Jameson.
His favourite vegetable is broccoli.
His height is 6'3", which is considerably tall for a caucasian American male, and mentioned briefly by Marilyn Manson in his autobiographical work, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell, as well as by him in interviews, wherein he usually credits his height to an abnormality caused at birth by his father Hugh's exposure to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War.
He guest appeared on rapper DMX's album Flesh Of My Flesh, Blood Of My Blood for the track "The Omen", produced by Swizz Beats.
He was mentioned in the controversial lyrics of New Radicals' hit song "You Get What You Give". In response, Manson stated that he would crack Gregg Alexander's skull for using him in the same sentence as Courtney Love.
He turned down the role of Dr. Jonathan Crane in the film Batman Begins.
He was featured in the 2004 film The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, as a construction worker.
He has stated that a new book containing all his pieces of art work will be released in the near future, possibly 2007.
His prize sartorial possession is a jacket made from the skins of conjoined twin lambs.
In January 2006 his website was updated with many new artworks being revealed.
His wedding ceremony took place at the artist Gottfried Helnwein's Castle Gurteen in Kilsheelan, County Tipperary, Ireland.
He is one of five artists to sing on the Queen of the Damned soundtrack, along with Wayne Static of Static-X, David Draiman of Disturbed, Chester Bennington of Linkin Park and Jay Gordon of Orgy.
He is currently working on Phantasmagoria: The Visions Of Lewis Carroll, which will appear on his website in winter 2006.
An untrue rumor circulated in the 1990s that the actor Josh Saviano who played a nerdy sidekick in the 1960s themed TV show The Wonder Years grew up to be Marilyn Manson. A similar story about Rob Stone, who played Kevin Owens in the ABC sitcom Mr. Belvedere, was also spread.
He married Dita Von Teese in a nondenominational ceremony, which was performed at Castle Gurteen, the home of the couple's friend, artist Gottfried Helnwein. Despite rumors suggesting the couple planned to exchange vials of their blood during the service, they merely swapped vows they had written for each other.
He's an only child to parents Hugh and Barb Warner. He was raised as an Episcopalian and attended Heritage Christian School in Canton, Ohio.
In Mexico people joke about his name by calling him "Merlin Menso" it means "Merlin The Fool."
He was originally approached to do the musical score of the remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre but had to drop out at the last minute due to schedule complications resulting from the release of The Golden Age of Grotesque.
The cover of the Mechanical Animals CD caused the album to be banned from many stores because it showed Mr. Manson as a naked alien.
He dramatically changes music and artist direction with each new album.
He owns a home in Los Angeles once used as a studio by The Rolling Stones.
He has a collection of medical prosthetics (artificial limbs, glass eyes, etc.) and vintage metal lunch boxes.
He was engaged to Rose McGowan from 1999 to 2001.
He was deemed a "Reverend" for the Church of Satan by Satanist Anton Szandor LaVey.
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