Top 40 Brian Molko Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I want to be a better person. I want to be a stronger person. I want to be someone who hurts less.”

— Brian Molko

2. “I’m not religious but I’m definitely very spiritual person. I’ve always said that religion is for people who are scared of ending up in hell. Spirituality is for those who’ve already been there.”

— Brian Molko

3. “The more personal you make something, the more universal it becomes, because essentially we’re all made up of the same emotional stuff.”

— Brian Molko

4. “Don’t let small minded people dictate how you should look and be free.”

— Brian Molko

5. “There is nothing more wonderful in life than seeing life as an adventure. We should all try things that we’re afraid of. We should all look very clearly into the unknown and enjoy it. Because when you come in contact with things that you really don’t know, that’s when you’re truly living.”

— Brian Molko

6. “If Placebo was a drug, they would no doubt be pure heroin – dangerous, mysterious and totally addictive.”

— Brian Molko

7. “You would not like me if you knew me.”

— Brian Molko

8. “Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.”

— Brian Molko

9. “Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.”

— Brian Molko

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10. “It says in the Bible that if you argue with a fool, you become one. That’s why I don’t talk to Fred Durst!”

— Brian Molko

11. “I love being a freak. It’s great!”

— Brian Molko

12. “I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are never black and white, things are very much shades of grey.”

— Brian Molko

13. “I was always a bit of a loose cannon, then again I was always the artistic one: bit of a social misfit. I probably still am.”

— Brian Molko

14. “We live in a strange bubble.”

— Brian Molko

15. “Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.”

— Brian Molko

16. “My mouth has a tendency to get me into trouble, but because I’m so small and I take on people who are lager than me. If someone punched me, I’d get my drummer beat them up.”

— Brian Molko

17. “Music has touched me deeply, sometimes to tears. But at the same time it’s been life-affirming, because I’ve been grateful for the fact that I’m alive and human and capable of being so moved.”

— Brian Molko

18. “The more you’ll dress up the more fun you’ll have.”

— Brian Molko

19. “I’d be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from your life and walk hand in hand with Jesus. I would hate for my death to be tragic: I’d like to be old when it happens. But hopefully a young death is unlikely.”

— Brian Molko

20. “Good conversation turns me on. A connection between two people, a mental one first.”

— Brian Molko

21. “If I was a girl I’d still swing both ways anyway.”

— Brian Molko

22. “When people hear the word “beautiful”, they expect something to be pretty. And for me that’s not always necessarily the case, y’know.”

— Brian Molko

23. “I’m tired of being around men all the time. I’m going to start a band called Skirt with three girls and I’ll play the guitar and sing backing vocals in drag. I went window shopping when I was in New York, saw a lot of amazing dresses.”

— Brian Molko

24. “Dresses, I find, are impractical in social situations, but I enjoy wearing them a great deal on stage.”

— Brian Molko

25. “I used to fly off the handle in everyday life, but I’m a little calmer now.”

— Brian Molko

26. “I’d like to be more of a bad influence than a role model. I’m getting lots of boys to wear eye-liner again which is good.”

— Brian Molko

27. “Music is about expressing things you can’t in everyday life.”

— Brian Molko

28. “I don’t seem to meet very many men I find attractive. And usually when I meet them and develop crushes on them they are usually straight. So I end up having more relationships with women...”

— Brian Molko

29. “I’m a weirdo magnet, but I’m handling it better than I used to.”

— Brian Molko

30. “I used to feel more straight for certain months and then just think about boys all the time I’m attracted to women who are very, very boyish. I’m not very big on big mammaries. I have a tendency to be attracted to very, very boyish girls. And usually very feminine men.”

— Brian Molko

31. “Schizophrenic is the best word – I change from day to day. I can be quite confusing. Indecisive, workaholic, and tired today.”

— Brian Molko

32. “I get given loads of rubbish. So, I have two Alanis Morissette records which I hide when anyone with taste calls around.”

— Brian Molko

33. “Names for bands lose their meaning after a little while. They become a series of sounds that you associate with people in music, really. The most important thing about choosing a name for a band is if you can imagine forty-thousand people screaming it in unison.”

— Brian Molko

34. “I believe people are still wonderful in hating. They hate what they don’t understand, they hate each other. No matter what anyone says, this world is still not a bit more tolerante than it was before.”

— Brian Molko

35. “I’m really bad with jokes. I would have to say Limp Bizkit.”

— Brian Molko

36. “When every day became a hangover and when you look at yourself in the mirror and go ‘I don’t like how you’re coming across to people.’ and when every day just started to feel the same. After the 50th shag, it doesn’t mean so much anymore.”

— Brian Molko

37. “The extreme side of my personality, which I chose to sort of display, was snowballing and getting a life of its own. It was like looking in a mirror and not recognising myself.”

— Brian Molko

38. “Stef is officially the sexiest member of Placebo.”

— Brian Molko

39. “I had quite a religious upbringing. I gave my life over to Christ at 11. I took it back when I was about 14.”

— Brian Molko

40. “I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect.”

— Brian Molko

41. “Everybody is trying to be so trendy. I think not being trendy should be the next trend.”

— Brian Molko

42. “I like the fact that people either think I’m incredibly gorgeous or flippin ugly.”

— Brian Molko

43. “A lot of what has pushed me forward is desire, and I have expressed that in my songwriting – perhaps because it’s safer!”

— Brian Molko

44. “I had a great deal of arrogance and a great deal of bravado, but I think the bravado was brought on by a huge insecurity.”

— Brian Molko

45. “I feel very comfortable with the way I look, and I feel very comfortable with the kind of confusion that it creates in people’s minds.”

— Brian Molko

46. “I’ve always found music that is carnal very attractive but not in the most obvious way.”

— Brian Molko