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--The Vision - MTV Europe Interview
Q: Could you explain the vision and concept that you had for Marilyn
Manson when you first formed the band?
MM:"Well, the idea, I was writing a lot of lyrics five or six years
ago and the name Marilyn Manson, I thought really describes everything
that I had to say, you know, male and female, beauty and ugliness,
and it was just very American. It was a statement on the American
culture, the power that we give to icons like Marilyn Monroe and
Charles Manson and since that's where it's always gone from there.
It's about the paradox. Diametrically opposed archetypes."
--Idea - Kerrang Magazine December 14, 1996
MM:"I've always looked at everything I do as if it were my favorite
band, you know, I like to present things with every element possible.
From the image to the music, to politics, to philosophy, to the
religious aspects."
--The Band's concept - Huh Magazine October 1996
MM:"The whole concept of this band is to present the ugly truth
about society - warts and all and let the chips fall where they
may."
--Envisioned World - Huh Magazine October 1996
MM:"In the world that I envision, Marilyn Manson isn't necessary.
But that's not the world we live in."
--Darker Half - Request Magazine
MM:"I've rarely had people ask me about my interest in Marilyn Monroe,
yet they always gravitate towards the darker half. I think that
is a part of the statement of Marilyn Manson itself."
--What is Man's greatest flaw? - American Online Interview
MM:"His inability to acknowledge and control his animal instincts."
--Make a Difference - Hit Parader December 1996
MM:"Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me,
I say be like you and make a difference."
--Societys Scapegoats - Huh Magazine October 1996
MM:"Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats for
its problems. Well, here I am."
--How is Marilyn Manson gonna make the world a better place? - Guitar
World Magazine
MM:"It's something people are gonna have to do for themselves. I'm
just gonna make them want it. Everybody has the ability. Every man
and woman is a star. It just takes the time to realize they need
the personal strength to acknowledge what they are, and I'm just
trying to wake that up in everybody."
--People hating Marilyn Manson - XS Magazine June 29, 1994
MM:"What good would Marilyn Manson be if no one hated Marilyn Manson."
--Think - British NME Interview August 30, 1997
MM:"I just try to make people think. I don't try to shock them or
scare them. I just try and get them to question."
--Pissed off - MTV Europe Headbangers Ball December 10, 1996
MM:"So anybody with any bit of intelligence has got to be pissed
off because if they see how things are in the world, they're not
going to be happy with it."
--Raising your Children - RIP Magazine February 1995
MM:"The message that I'm sending out to them is raise your kids
better or I'll be raising them for you."
--What's your worst habit? - Vox Magazine October 1997
MM:"Doing press."
--Corrupting Youth - Huh Magazine October 1996
MM:"Parents and legislators love to blame people like us for corrupting
the youth of this country, but the kids were corrupted long before
we ever got to them."
--Image - CMJ January 1997
MM:"I'm not anything like Brad Pitt or Antonio Banderas, but maybe
it's the taboo element of my image, which is almost deathlike, that
attracts them. I should be the last person that they should be attracted
to."
--Becoming the Mainstream - Backstage Interview Salt Lake City show
MM:"That's part of being a band, being entertainers. The more people
that we reach, the better. I don't want to remain an underground
secret. However we still want to hang onto what we're about."
--What are your views on Drugs and Drug users? - America Online
Interview
MM:"I respect strong people. Some people can handle drugs and some
people can't. I don't respect drug addicts."
--Marilyn & Manson - Circus Magazine June 1997
MM:"Nothing is just black or just white. I combined the word "Marilyn"
{Monroe} as the white, positive aspect - the light - with the word
"Manson" {Charles} which is the black, negative aspect. Light and
darkness, life and death are simply two inseparable parts of life.
Without darkness you wouldn't know the light and without evil, you
wouldn't know what's good."
--Journalism - Circus Magazine May 1997 - Band Member: Twiggy Ramirez
TR:"Marilyn Manson himself was a journalist but I think he just
got so fed up with all the crap people fed him and listening to
the same shit over and over that he decided to do the talking."
--Right Answers - Metal Edge Magazine August 1997
MM:"I just thought that I had all the right questions and no one
had the right answers, and I knew that I had the right answers,
so I thought it would be much more beneficial for me to be answering
the questions instead of asking them."
--Do your fans seem to be getting this complex message? - Select
Magazine June 1997
MM:"They'll see it. And it doesn't matter if they don't. It's only
Rock & Roll. But I do intend to move more into the mainstream. Marilyn
Manson is just the first phase."
--What impression do you want to make on Americas youth?
MM:"If I could just get them to WANT AN ANSWER, then they'll find
it on their own. I don't have any answer for them. There is a distinct
lack of leadership, idols, icons, and superstars for kids to identify
with. When I was a kid there was a lot of people that I could look
to or look up to and it just seems like there's not that anymore."
--Growing up what did you want to be? - CFNY May 30, 1996
MM:"I use to want to be a writer, I wanted to write stories, but
I tried that, and found that this was the way to get things across
this way."
--Would you like to be on Oprah? - RIP Magazine November 1996
MM:"I don't believe that Oprah deals with any subjects of real value.
Not that other talk shows do, but she seems to have gone to a different
level and doesn't have the psychological ammo to provide an interesting
conversation."
--Is Marilyn Manson a Racist? - Guitar World Magazine
MM:"It's beyond fascism and it's beyond racism and sexism. If you
were to say "I like only white people." There's a bunch of white
people that suck and make it under the fence and they get a free
ride. So I couldn't possibly like only white people. I judge people
on their intelligence and on their personality. I think the only
thing that counts in the world is what you can contribute to society.
That's why in a perfect world, America would be run by artists,
musicians, writers, and people of that nature because these are
the people that make the world worth living."
--American Teenagers - RIP Magazine November 1996
Q: Is it harder to be an American Teenager now than it was in the
past?
MM:"Yes there's too much information. People are open to so many
things to worry about. Prior to television, people didn't know how
ugly the world was because they never had the chance to see it.
People didn't know how ugly auto accidents were. People didn't get
to see the effects of disease in full color. Children today are
very desensitized."
--Desire to be pure again.- Details Magazine December 1996
MM:"My desire is to be pure again and not dirtied by the world.
But it's my duty to be as ugly and as filthy as I am, so the audience
can experience what I have."
--On America - Metal Hammer Magazine
MM:"I'm everything they're afraid of. Everything they hate. Everything
they try and hide, and a lot more besides, I speak my mind and show
people what's out there in reality. They're using me as a boogyman,
but I'm reflecting it all back like a mirror."
--Your reality - Underscope Magazine November 1995
MM:"If your reality is the same as my reality, then you're in trouble."
--Stupidity - Rolling Stone Magazine January 23, 1997
MM:"There's always been this underlying theme in the stuff I do.
It's teaching people not to be so stupid"
--Teen Suicide - Kerrang Magazine December 14, 1996
Q: How would you react if some kid did something tragically stupid
as a direct result of his exposure to a Marilyn Manson album or
concert?
MM:"I'd feel like they'd proven my point by mis-perceiving me. If
somebody were to kill themselves or somebody else, that would just
go to show how ignorant people were raised. You know. If they had
to use a rock song as an excuse to not go on living, it's pretty
weak. I'm creating music, and I'm saying what I experience and what's
on my mind. How somebody relates to it is purely up to them. If
people want to be like me then they should be themselves because
ultimately that's what I'm doing."
--Stupid weak people - RIP magazine February 1995
MM:"I don't really have a place in my heart for stupid or weak people.
There's to many people in the world, and they need to make way for
the people who can actually contribute something to society."
--Ideal Utopia - Capitol BRM
MM:"I think my ideal utopia would be to surround myself with people
who are intelligent and responsible for themselves and not what
television might want to impress on them. That would be my criteria
for intelligence."
--Things have gone to far - Spin Magazine March 1997
MM:"There's days when I'd love everybody to realize that things
have gone to far and that we need to be born again. So that we can
appreciate the little things. Then there's other days when I think
the world deserves to be destroyed. Why should I help anybody? Everybody's
stepped on me my whole life. I've put on this crown, but I'm not
sure If I want it."
--Love/Hate - SLC "F" Magazine
MM:"A lot of people think that I hate everything, but there's some
things in life that I love, and the things I do love are very important."
--About the Internet - SLC "F" Magazine
MM:"I'm not really into the internet, it just seems to be a gossip
column for people who have nothing else to do with their lives,
but I'm sure they can turn it into something good eventually."
--Would you like to have a family someday?
MM:"I like the idea. I don't know if it's something that could come
true or work out possibly. I don't know if I would want to bring
a kid into the world, but I would like the opportunity to be a father"
--Understand Manson - Rolling Stone Magazine January 23, 1997
MM:"I have people come up to me and ask me if they can cut me while
I cut them, or if I can put out a cigarette on their face. I can
understand that people are trying to make a first impression, but
I think a lot of people don't understand what Marilyn Manson is
about."
--Stupid People - Capitol Ballroom November 9, 1995
MM:"I don't think stupid people should breed."
--Smoking - Underscope Magazine
MM:"I don't believe in cigarettes, in fact when people smoke, I
can't hear what they're saying. I've fine tuned myself to shut out
the words of smokers. So I miss out on a lot of conversations."
--Innocent - Rolling Stone January 23, 1997
MM:"In many ways, I wish that I could start all over and once again
appreciate the taboos. It would be great to be inn
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