Marilyn Manson
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"Brian Hugh Warner", better known by his stage name "Marilyn Manson", is an American musician, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, actor, painter, multimedia artist, and former Music journalism/music journalist. He is known for his controversial stage personality and image as the eponymous lead singer of the band Marilyn Manson (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 American cultural icons, namely actress Marilyn Monroe and Manson Family leader Charles Manson.

He is perhaps best known for his songs and albums released in the 1990s, such as 1996's Antichrist Superstar and 1998's Mechanical Animals, which along with his public image earned him a reputation in the mainstream media as a controversial figure and a negative influence on young people. In the US alone, three of the band's albums have been awarded platinum and three more went gold, and the band has had eight releases debut in the top ten, including two number-one albums. Manson has been ranked number 44 in the Top 100 Heavy Metal Vocalists by Hit Parader, and has been nominated for four Grammy Awards.

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

Music and image has continued to get more extreme as the world gets more extreme. We are the consequence of the modern decaying civilization.

Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats for its problems. Well, here I am.

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.

Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?

I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference.

I'm not against God, I'm against the misuse of God.

I'm tired of people calling me a devil worshipper. It's kind of pointless you know. Because if the Devil did exist, he'd be worshipping me, because I'm more successful than he is.

I view my job as being someone who is supposed to piss people off. I don't want to be just one-of-the-guys. I don't want to be just a smiling face you see on television presenting some vapid kind of easily- digestible garbage. This is rock and roll. I want to be a rock and roll star! Rock and roll is about shaking things up, making people act and react. That's what I do.

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.

You should have to pass an IQ test before you breed. You have to take a driving test to operate vehicles and an SAT test to get into college. So why don't you have to take some sort of test before you give birth to children? When I am President, thats the first rule I will institute.

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

Music is the strongest form of magic.

Music critics get their records for free so their opinions usually don't matter.

People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.