Marilyn Manson

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Birthday:

5 January 1969, Canton, Ohio, USA

Birth Name:

Brian Hugh Warner

Height:

185 cm

Marilyn Manson was born Brian Hugh Warner on January 5, 1969 in Canton, Ohio, to Barbara Jo (Wyer) and Hugh Angus Warner. He has German and English ancestry. During his childhood, one of his neighbors molested him several times until the young Brian broke down one day and told his mother what happened. As an only child, he would often get into mischievous activities such as adventure through his grandfather Jack Warner's sex toys, shoot his BB gun with his cousin Chad, and create sex magazines to sell to his classmates. His parents raised him as an Episcopalian, and he attended the religious private Heritage Christian School. It was there that he became fueled with hate towards Christanity. During his tenth grade year, he convinced his parents to let him attend a public school.After he graduated from high school, he and his parents moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida because his father got a better job there. He studied journalism and theater at the local community college called Broward, and being some place new and feeling lonely, he wrote poems and short stories. After being fired from his last job at a record store, he became entertainment journalist for a local magazine. He interviewed several famous musicians including Trent Reznor from the band "Nine Inch Nails". Along with his job and writing, he would also frequently go to rock clubs. He soon decided to create his own band.With musical influences from Ozzy Osbourne and KISS, he recruited other musicians with the same interests and started the band called "Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids". He got the name Marilyn Manson as a combination from the names of the movie star Marilyn Monroe and the psycho killer Charles Manson. The band's name would later officially change to just Mariyn Manson, and most of the original band members would leave and be replaced, too. Manson reunited with Trent Reznor and had his band tour with "Nine Inch Nails". Reznor would also produce Marilyn Manson's first three albums (Portriat of an American Family, AntiChrist Superstar, and Mechanical Animals) and an E.P. (Smells like Children). "Mechanical Animals" is Marilyn Manson's most successful album to date. With the success, Manson became a controversial celebrity, because the anti-Christian message in his songs, and Satanist 'Anton Szandor LaVey' deemed Manson a Reverend for the Church of Satan. Also with fame, Manson started to mingle with other celebrities, and began a romantic relationship with the actress Rose McGowan. They became engaged, but broke off the relationship in 2001.He then fell in love with the burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese, and soon became engaged. They had a fairytale, non-denominational wedding in a castle in Ireland. Meanwhile, Manson came out with two more albums (Holy Wood, and the Golden Age of Grotesque), and a best of album (Lest We Forget: The Best Of...). He also dabbled into acting by being in such movies as Jawbreaker (1999), Party Monster (1998) and The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004). He continues to make music and act in movies. Show less «

In the end we're all Springer guests, really, we just haven't been on the show.

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 the...Show more »

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. You have Beavis and Butt-head telling you what music you're allowed to like and not like, and you've got sitcoms that have canned laughter that lets you know when to laugh if you're too stupid to know when the joke is--people are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves because America has raised them like that. Show less «

Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference.

This is the culture you're raising your kids in. Don't be surprised if it blows up in your face.

When people say 'I want to be like you', I tell them if you want to be like me, then be yourself.

Im not saying that when I perform I'm Barry Manilow, but I'm also not killing kids and beating up dogs and things like that.

I'm thankful that I have two middle fingers.....I only wish I had more.

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 smilin...Show more »

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. Show less «

We've always found that with people being so desensitized, things have to be really shocking and have to punch you in the face to get your a...Show more »

We've always found that with people being so desensitized, things have to be really shocking and have to punch you in the face to get your attention. Then, once you've got their attention. You can say something they might remember. Show less «

I picked that (Marilyn Manson) as the fakest stage name of all to say that this is what show business is, fake. Marilyn Monroe wasn't even h...Show more »

I picked that (Marilyn Manson) as the fakest stage name of all to say that this is what show business is, fake. Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best. As long as you know everything's a lie, you can't hurt yourself. Show less «

Billy Zane is someone that I met and is a fellow artist, and sometimes we work together, painting, however pretentious that might sound. It ...Show more »

Billy Zane is someone that I met and is a fellow artist, and sometimes we work together, painting, however pretentious that might sound. It was really quite simple, though. We would just spend time together, hanging out, listening to music, or painting. We became friends. He was one of the first people I met when I moved to Hollywood. And I think he's a cool actor. Show less «

Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.

I've always had the same level of excitement about making music, but now it seems so much more important because all of the blame that was p...Show more »

I've always had the same level of excitement about making music, but now it seems so much more important because all of the blame that was put on me for Columbine. The entire incident, the way the media reacted, the people who were involved, the way I was treated, it hurt me personally because my career is my life. It made me feel a lot like how I felt growing up because it was a lot of people beating you down and treating you a certain way for something you're not even responsible for. I just really had to re-evaluate what I was gonna do; How am I gonna respond to this, how am I gonna take this? And I wanted to come out swinging with both fists. Show less «

It is a great feeling to write a song, but to be able to perform it, it takes on a whole different light.

"If Mandy [Mandy Moore] and I had a love child (if she was old enough) this is what they'd look like." - referring to The Polyphonic Spree a...Show more »

"If Mandy [Mandy Moore] and I had a love child (if she was old enough) this is what they'd look like." - referring to The Polyphonic Spree at the 2004 MTV Video Music Awards (2004). Show less «

The ability to make small children cry at the grocery store I like better than the fame.

I've always watched pop-culture shows, and I found out when I thought about this, Marilyn Monroe and Charles Manson were the two most memora...Show more »

I've always watched pop-culture shows, and I found out when I thought about this, Marilyn Monroe and Charles Manson were the two most memorable people from the sixties, and I found it interesting that things like pop-culture shows put them on the same kind of celebrity status, and I thought that dichotomy of positive and negative, putting those two names together, represented what I had to say and what I was about. (On where the name, Marilyn Manson, came from.) Show less «

[on a period where his career faltered] I felt I wasn't able to live up to what I am supposed to be. I lost interest. That was the problem. ...Show more »

[on a period where his career faltered] I felt I wasn't able to live up to what I am supposed to be. I lost interest. That was the problem. The edge comes with the desire. I'm like a knife. You're either a butcher knife or a butter knife. It takes longer to cut off your dick with a butter knife. That's what I was. I don't know where that metaphor came from, but I'm sticking with it. Show less «

[on people partly linking the Columbine shooting to his music]I got blamed for something I had nothing to do with. It wasn't right, and it h...Show more »

[on people partly linking the Columbine shooting to his music]I got blamed for something I had nothing to do with. It wasn't right, and it hurt, hurt me personally, and hurt my career. Show less «

I think the only thing you can be in today's world is chaos and confusion. You can't be shocking. The minute Kennedy was shot on color on TV...Show more »

I think the only thing you can be in today's world is chaos and confusion. You can't be shocking. The minute Kennedy was shot on color on TV, you can't be shocking. You can be chaos. And confusion is what brings the interest, the attention. Show less «