NO WE ARE NOT DEVIL WORSHIPPERS!!! I've never been and never will be a satan worshipper or someone who worships a devil. Marilyn Manson More Quotes by Marilyn Manson More Quotes From Marilyn Manson People are very surprised to hear me say that a lot of my values are Christian values. I think that's part of my shock. I just don't like the way that Christianity combined with the influence of television has bred a nation of weakness. (Christian television do get the facts wrong sometimes and the image they portray turns most people off.) Marilyn Manson christian people thinking I've never treated anyone in my band like they're not on the same level as me. I'm not that kind of person. In the past, I have disrespected people in my band and that was my weakness. I think some people have a hard time understanding how I think. Marilyn Manson hard-times past thinking I fear being like everyone I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. I love balancing between chaos and control with everything I do. I always have a fear of going one way or another, getting lost in something, or losing everything to get lost in. And I fear being a completely acceptable sheep in society. Marilyn Manson losing-control hate sheep Finding someone who's willing to drown with you creates a situation where you no longer want to drown. Marilyn Manson finding-someone situation want Law is only what is popular. Not what's right or wrong. Marilyn Manson law I still get excited performing live. When you see the immediate reaction from a crowd, its like being a theater performer, its something you can't get from being a writer or being an ad man ... its almost ritualistic. Marilyn Manson crowds excited men I usually wake up far after breakfast. So I have no other choice but to go straight to dinner. Marilyn Manson wake-up choices breakfast I put out a lot of ideas in the lyrics and the way I do my things. There's a lot of ideas floatin' around and people who know what it is. People will pick it up if they know what to pick up. Marilyn Manson people way ideas People hate to describe their music. What we have come to call it is "beat up your mom" music. As far as describing what it sounds like, I guess you'd have to listen. Marilyn Manson hate mom people 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. Marilyn Manson want laughing people I'm someone who is open-minded to new experiences because they teach you new things. Marilyn Manson teach new-experiences open-minded I think confidence is the most appealing quality in any human being or any artist; that's what really attracts us to people. Marilyn Manson artist people thinking The genius of art finds sanctuary among children and madmen to survive.That is who we are. Marilyn Manson genius children art I'm not a role model. I'm a role villain. Marilyn Manson role-models villain roles The idea of heaven is Christianity's way of creating a hell on earth. Marilyn Manson creating heaven ideas Nothing's gonna change the world, nothing's gonna change the world. There was Lennon and a happy gun, there were words on the pavement. Marilyn Manson pavement gun world I did have a Huggy Beardoll. One of his legs fell off. That empty leg became a place where, when we were doing a lot of drugs on tour at one point, we would store the drugs in his empty leg. That's where the term 'dancing with the one-legged man' on Smells Like Children came from, because whenever anyone was doing drugs we called it the 'dance of the one-legged man.' That became a ritualistic thing that was funny for awhile. Marilyn Manson smell men children Image and music always works together for me. I think they're equally important and I've always done things in a way that people remember them by, but I don't set out to just shock people...because that's very easy, a lot of people could do that, I just like to do things the way that makes me happy really. And sometimes that's too much for certain people, but, you know, I try to push the envelope to make the boundaries wider as far as what you can and can't do in music. Marilyn Manson working-together people thinking If every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes off of your life, every game of Dungeons & Dragons you play delays the loss of your virginity by seven hours. Marilyn Manson dragons games loss You look a certain way because you want people to listen to you in a certain way. Marilyn Manson want people looks
