Varg Vikernes Quotes

I think a lot of times, when people who get a chance to meet me and be around me, they understand that I'm not the person that the media make me out to be.

It's just crazy the way people portray me.

The bad boy image is something given to me by the media. I have been in relationships earlier, even for as long as three years. I am not saying I am a saint. I am like any other guy, I guess. Unfortunately, every time I even meet a person, it is reported as a link-up.

Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted.

I don't think I'm portrayed in the media the way I really am - but then who is?

There are lots of people who believe that caricature of me the tabloids created, so they think they don't like me.

I just feel as though it's become a situation where people have manifested this caricature of who I am, and they act as if there's no real person inside of it.

A person's portrayal on TV isn't always how someone is.

A lot of the stories I've read about myself, I don't even recognize who they're writing about.

I just think that the whole diva thing is a misrepresentation of who I am.

In the beginning, the media was calling me a bad boy all the time because of the way I act and feel onstage. None of them have ever taken the time to get to know me when I climb offstage.

There's a perception in certain parts of the media that I love 'bling.' I love diamonds. I love to show off. I really don't understand where that comes from.

People have this idea of me being some kind of monster, and that's the complete opposite of who I am.

I would worry if people always associated me with Larry Sokolov.

I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.

Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn't have been more wrong.

I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.

All I want is for people not to see me as this cartoon monster.

I want to change the bad boy image that has stuck for a bit because I don't think I am at all how I have been portrayed. I would like that to change because it's awful to hear and read what is said of you.

It's an image that the media has given me as a bad girl, and the only reason they gave me that image is just because of the few things that have gone wrong in my life, and also because I grew up living in a trailer.

I've given up on being accurately portrayed in the media.

Actually, the curious thing is that the more you become a subject of admiration or loathing, the more you're examined under a microscope, the distance seems to open up between who you really are and the portrayals that people impose on you.

There's always going to be a separate version of you that people will create, and you have no control over it.

People always brand me as this person who is anti-Brady, and I don't think that I ever have been, except that occasionally I would like to talk about something else that I'm doing.

The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.