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" Yes, I'm reckless and sometime express no concern for my own well being, and I express a misanthropic view of the world, but to have an opinion, you can't be a nihilist. "

Marilyn Manson

My Own

Opinion

Own

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Transformation

" 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. "

" Music is the strongest form of magic. "

" People only hate what they see in themselves. "

" I think everybody's got a presentation. Everybody looks a certain way because they want to convey a certain image. You look a certain way because you want people to listen to you in a certain way. "

" 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. "

" I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me. "

Marilyn Manson

Funny

Because

" I'm not a role model. I'm a role villain. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like we do. "

" Johnny Depp is like a brother to me. We have matching tattoos on our backs - Charles Baudelaire, the flowers of evil, this giant skeleton thing. It's kind of a secret. People say to us, 'Why did you get that?' And we say, 'No reason.' "

Marilyn Manson

People

You

" When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love? "

" Finding someone who's willing to drown with you creates a situation where you no longer want to drown. "

" 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. "

" To me, Satan ultimately represents rebellion. "

Marilyn Manson

Ultimately

Satan

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

Marilyn Manson

Comfortable

Live

" 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. "

" 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 a deja vu, then you start to wonder, 'What is real and what isn't?' "

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

" I'm someone who is open-minded to new experiences because they teach you new things. "

" 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. "

" The hero is never the star of the story. "

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

" Things have become devalued to the point where people don't realize the repercussions, that they're devaluing themselves. It could end up bringing about chaos, a lawless situation. "