Manson: "For me, art is supposed to be a question mark."

Manson: "We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves."

Manson: "I believe a lot about psychology, or I'd like to learn about it - I'm someone who likes to learn about everything."

Manson: "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."

Manson: "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."

Manson: "Music is the strongest form of magic."

Manson: "But I do have an old-fashioned sense of tradition — although it's not always what everyone might find conventional. If you're going to do something like getting married, it should have a sense of celebration to it. It should be grand — it doesn't have to be in tracksuits!"

Manson: "All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you're made to feel guilty for being human, then you're going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can't escape from."

Manson: "When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed."

Manson: "In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it."

Manson: "Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised."

Manson: "I do want lots of kids, too, but not any time soon. Ultimately, that's how you make yourself immortal — by passing down your ideas and values to your children."

Manson: "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."

Manson: "Don't ever empty the bucket of mystery. Never let people define what you do. It's not about zigging when you should zag. It's not about doing something unprecedented and unpredictable. It's just about never being a word, or something that is not in the process of transformation."

Manson: "Everything I was afraid of when I was growing up, I've become. I've taken on my nightmares, like the devil and the end of the world, and I've become those things."

Manson: "What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings."

Manson: "To admit you want to have a comeback means you have to admit you weren't what you were supposed to be. You dropped below your own standard."

Manson: "People only hate what they see in themselves."

Manson: "If a kid is old enough to drive a car or buy a gun, isn't he old enough to be held personally responsible for what he does with his car or gun? Or if he's a teenager, should someone else be blamed because he isn't as enlightened as an eighteen-year-old?"

Manson: “I feel like I’ve dreamed half of my life that hasn’t happened yet, so a lot of times I’m going along, and I do stuff, and I know that I’ve done it. I have deja vus more than I have regular experiences. If half of your day is deja vu, then you start to wonder, ‘What is real and what isn’t?'”

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

Manson: "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."

Manson: "Marilyn Manson is a mockery of American pop culture."