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
For me, the key to longevity - and immortality, in a sense - has to do with transformation.
I've never written songs about relationships. I've written songs about how I feel. The songs are more about me, than another person. That's the way I like to look at it.
The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth.
Relationships never break cleanly. Like a valuable vase, they are smashed and then glued back together, smashed and glued, smashed and glued until the pieces just don't fit together anymore.
Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like we do.
We will no longer be oppressed by the fascism called Christianity. We will no longer be oppressed by the mentality of the police state.
People love to judge, as long as they have somebody else to judge they don't give in and answer with hate would drag me down, it would simply put me into the same position they are, I don't believe that their position is an enviable one!
I'm just here for the narcotics.
I think confidence is the most appealing quality in any human being or any artist; that's what really attracts us to people.
I speak in reality. I don't try to hide anything from anybody, and that's the most dangerous thing about our music that parents are so afraid of.
Leave me in a room with some crayons and I'll draw on the wall.
I decided to make music again at a time when I couldn't have had more obstacles.
I don't want to have a gravestone. I want to have all my friends burn me and then snort the ashes. I think that's the only way to go out.
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.