Marilyn Manson didn’t remove a rib.
Stop lying.
"For our first set on New Year's Eve, I wore a tuxedo and a top hat. For the second set, a girl named Terri disguised herself as me, wearing a black wig, a tuxedo, a top hat and a very realistic strap-on dildo. When she walked on stage, everyone thought it was me with my dick hanging out of my pants, which was nothing new by that point. As the band begun its version of "Cake and Sodomy, " I crept around her and gave her a blow job, so that it seemed like i was sucking my own dick. Maybe that's where the rumor that I surgically removed my ribs so that I could give myself fellatio started." - Marilyn Manson (Brian Warner), Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell Autobiography.

Marilyn Manson Quotes:
I suggest you read them. "Manson was a serial killer, a mass murderer-it's the dark part. Nothing is just in black or white. I combined Marilyn [Monroe] as the white, positive aspect-the light-with the dark part of Charles Manson. Light and darkness, life and death are simply two inseparable parts of life. Without darkness you wouldn't know light and without evil you wouldn't know what's good. Good and evil go hand in hand, you can't separate them." - Marilyn Manson

"Because we titled our album Antichrist Superstar or because the way we look and behave? No we're not Satanists. I don't believe in organized religions at all. The title "Antichrist Superstar" is provoking yes, but people want to be provoked. It makes them think, shakes them up. I read a lot of books about so-called black magic. I confessed once that Aleister Crowley had a big influence on me, but there were other influences too. I read all the great philosophers but most people just hear what they want to hear and it makes it easy for them to brand us Satanists. Hardly anybody ever mentions that I read Nietzche and he was one of my most powerful influences. If people would care to take a good look, to look past their prejudices, they could see his influences too." - Marilyn Manson

"I think I've grown to become all the things that tormented me as a child" ~ Marilyn Manson, on himself

"Raise your kids better or I'll raise them for you" ~ Marilyn Manson, on parenting

"I view my job as being someone who is supposed to piss people off" ~ Marilyn Manson, on his occupation

"Sometimes the hardest thing to believe in is yourself. Never mind trying to believe in God or the President. Believe in yourself, because in the end, you are... whatever you want to be." ~ Marilyn Manson, on believing in yourself

"If more stupid people killed themselves over stupid songs, there would be less stupid people in the world." ~ Marilyn Manson, on suicide because of music

"I'm not one to condemn anyone's pursuit of god or happiness or anything like that. I just think that we are raised to feel very guilty for being ourselves, and that's a large part of what Christianity stands for." ~ Marilyn Manson, on Christianity

"The media has unfairly scapegoated the music industry and so-called Goth kids, and has speculated - with no basis in truth - that artists like myself are in someway to blame. This tragedy was a product of ignorance, hatred, and an access to guns." ~ Marilyn Manson, on the Columbine shootings

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

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

"I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to be forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means."

"A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do."

"Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed."

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

"Is adult entertainment killing our children? Or is killing our children entertaining our adults?"

"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."

"Music is the strongest form of magic."

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

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

"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."

"The word 'Antichrist', to me, is the collective disbelief in god."

"These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way."

"They'll see it. And it doesn't matter if they don't. It's only Rock 'n' Roll. But I do intend to move more into the Mainstream. Marilyn Manson is just the First phase."

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

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

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

"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'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."

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

"There are people accusing me that I'm sick, that I'm a danger to morals, western civilization and basically everything under the sun. And they've got these wild stories about me, completely off the wall, completely untrue. They thought them up and it makes you wonder what goes on in their brain, but of course, they don't consider themselves sick. They think they're normal because they don't dress like I do."

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