Glenn Danzig Quotes

Well, I use the word Satanist, but I don't know if I ever really considered myself as somebody who's into Satan.

To worship the devil, you have to believe in it first.

For a while I was collecting Satan and devil stuff - you know, anything that had to do with old Beelzebub or Lucifer. But I had to put the brakes on it, because there's a lot of stuff out there, and the collection was just growing too quickly.

I was a made an eternal member of the Church of Satan by Anton LeVey himself in 1988.

You get these Satanists types that don't believe in God. OK, so you realize you don't get Satan if you don't get God, right? Or atheists that want to believe in ghosts. Wait, wait, wait. You can't have a two-way go on that. You want to be agnostic, be an atheist, fine. But you don't bring ghosts along with you.

The occult stuff, I grew up having a fascination about world religion and that fascination grew into other religions and other things and I kind of dabbled my way into the occult and started reading about the occult.

I'm involved with Satanists and activities.

The Church of Satan was something, aesthetically, that we were always really fascinated with and wanted to emulate. I think it's a good look.

If someone was to tell you that you were a witch, I think that it would be somewhat like, "You've got to be kidding me! I'm out of here! You're crazy!"

Do I believe in Witchcraft? I'm the result of it.

To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan.

We did six records, then six movies. Now we need to do six of something else, so we get 666 - and then our master Satan can return!

No, I'm not a scientologist.

I don't believe in voodoo.

There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.

The 18th century, which is usually held to be the most "materialistic" of epochs, was, in fact, a most "spiritualistic" one; in which ghosts, demons, quacks, philosophers' stones, enchanters' wands, mysteries and mummeries, were as fashionable—as they will probably be again some day.

For my part, I have ever believed, and do so now, that there are witches.

America was founded on satanism.

I honestly do not believe in witchcraft.

I've learned a lot of sleight of hand and coin tricks, but as far as the occult is concerned, I have not dabbled. I'm sort of an internal skeptic about those things.

As a young teen, Satan and the idea of some sort of world that you could be in touch with that could empower you was very much the symbol for freedom.

I sort of found King Diamond in second grade, but I didn't become a devoted Satanist until a few years later, but that was very much part of my adolescence as well.

You are not worshipping anything when you are a Satanist.

I think people hear the words 'transcendental meditation' and 'paganism,' and that's almost worse because it's real. Those are real things. Those are absolute energies. Satanism is like Halloween. Transcendental meditation and having a realization of how we really are - whether we want to be or not - we live in a pagan culture.

I have friends who practice witchcraft, and I study tarot myself. I guess, to be specific, I don't want to believe in a world without magic.