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--Discussing
Something New - Raygun Magazine - November 1998
MM:"That's why I'm going into something else. I've got no desire
to discuss religion or politics that much anymore. I want to discuss
emotion. I want to discuss sexuality. I want to discuss music. And
I want to discuss Hollywood."
--Multiple Sides - Dutch TV Guide - October 10, 1998
MM:"My personality has indeed multiple sides. This counts for each
human basically, but not everybody dares to admit it by far. Your
male side, your feminine side, even your immature childish side,
all take part in the perfection of your personality. As a human
it makes you more creative, colorful, and complete."
--Humanity - Dutch TV Guide - October 10, 1998
MM:"My contempt for the rest of humanity is the driving force behind
my creativity. The fact that other people completely lack the motivation
to live, their lack of creativity and their ignorance. Those are
my driving forces."
--Icons in Music - Raygun Magazine - November 1998
MM:"But I think that's why there needs to be someone like me. There's
a lack of someone with something to say. There's no more Jim Morrisons
or Bob Dylans, even though some of these people are still around.
I think the power that music had, like in the 60's and how people
looked to it for heroes and icons, it's different now. People look
to it for T-shirts to wear, but they don't look to it in the same
way. But I think that I'm trying to bring that back to music. And
I think my fans at least get something more."
--An Only Child - Raygun Magazine - November 1998
Q: Do you think that being an only child aided your creativity?
MM:"I think that it made me use my imagination more, because I had
no one else to really talk to. So I spent a lot of time making things
up, and reading, and fantasizing."
--Small Towns - Dutch TV Guide - October 10, 1998
MM:"I have become who I am, partially because of where I grew up.
Call it small town America, it has shaped me and forced me to make
choices in life. It also means that I will always understand the
millions of American youngsters who live in the cities and towns
in the country. Their emotions, their motives, their sentiments."
--The Music - Raygun Magazine - November 1998
MM:"I still feel that I can always be better. And I'm already thinking
about how much better my next record will be, or how much better
my next performance will be."
--Creating New Things - Dutch TV Guide - October 10, 1998
MM:"I paint a lot, keep myself occupied with movies and am always
busy with creating new things in my head. I don't consider it as
work. So I never have a day-off for that matter, because my work
is who I am."
--Do you think you'll live a long time? - Raygun Magazine - November
1998
MM:"I'll live as long as I want to. I think I'm not going to let
the world off that easy by dying until I'm ready. I've never really
been afraid of dying. I've always felt like I've got a lot of things
to do. I've got an important life ahead of me. I'm not going to
die, cause I've got plans tomorrow. And until I stop feeling that,
I'm not really afraid. I feel kind of a responsibility to myself
to always be the best. Always try to be better at what I do."
--Being Sober - Raygun Magazine - November 1998
MM:"I think there's too many people. What always saddens me, and
this always happens to a lot of my friends, is that they can't have
a balance. I'll meet people that are completely sober, people that
are completely fucked up. No one can be right in the middle. And
that's how I always am. I'm just going up the middle. I can be completely
fucked up for weeks on end and be completely sober for the next
two weeks. And not have to choose between the two. I'm not going
to label myself as one or the other."
--Painting - Raygun Magazine - November 1998
MM:"I've been painting a lot, watercolor paintings, and I paint
anybody that comes into my house. So sometimes, there's probably
weird watercolor Marilyn Manson paintings of mysterious drug dealers
floating around Hollywood. Because I would sell it for more than
they're selling."
--Clean Slate - Raygun Magazine - November 1998
MM:"So for me to be vulnerable, for me to be frail, it's shocking
to me. I've discovered how as a performer and as an artist everything
you do is also put into context with what you've already done. It's
not, like, each thing is taken on its own. People are always gonna
associate what I do now with how did that relate to Antichrist Superstar?
How does that relate to what he said about his childhood in his
book? It's not a clean slate. I'm not just presenting myself for
the first time."
--Manipulated by the Media - Raygun Magazine - November 1998
MM:"I've never once been manipulated by the media. I consider that
just as much of my creation as the music. Every reaction they had
was completely my intention from the beginning."
--Boy George - Raygun Magazine - November 1998
MM:"I met Boy George. My mom loves Boy George. My mom writes him
love letters. He gave my mom his address and she won't stop obsessing
about him. She doesn't think he's gay. She thinks she's got a shot
at it."
--Rocky Horror Picture Show - Raygun Magazine - November 1998
MM:"Tim Curry, a hot number. I would have liked him to shave his
armpits though. I'm not a big on them. I shave mine. I can't even
look at myself with armpit hair. Disgusting."
--Dope Show Video - FHM Magazine - November 1998
MM:"While I was making the video for out latest single, The Dope
Show. I was wearing an outfit that I couldn't take off myself, and
I had to have someone help me take a shit. It was a guy, of course.
A woman should never see you shit."
--Pepsi or Coke - FHM Magazine - November 1998
MM:"I don't drink Pepsi. I hate the way it represents the next generation
of smiling people. Now coke, it even sounds like a narcotic. Plus,
it has fascist coloring. You really have to bow to Coca-Cola."
--Self Examination - JANE Magazine - November 1998
MM:"I would put myself through a lot of physical pain with drugs
or masochistic behavior. And that was something that transformed
me, really. I find myself being a different person. Yet no therapy
was involved. I've tried a couple of times, but I find that self-examination
works better for me than trying to explain it to someone else."
--Stars - JANE Magazine - November 1998
MM:"I've always been fascinated with films and stars. Marilyn Monroe
and Charles Manson and the whole Hollywood Babylon. I guess I just
wanted to resurrect it."
--Fame - JANE Magazine - November 1998
MM:"I examined what I see fame doing to other people, and how I
try and separate myself from doing that, and how it isolates you,
how it puts you in the position of an oddity or something."
--Art Without Pain - Orkus Magazine - October 98
MM:"You can't make art without pain. Without sex, dope, confusion
or whatever. You can't grasp good music just out of air. You must
do something for it. You must find yourself in your music. If not,
it is just nothing."
--Painting - Orkus Magazine - October 98
Q: Do you paint?
MM:"Yes, people are my favorites! First I took Polaroid photos of
them and at home I paint them."
Q: Are they so abstract?
MM:"No, more grotesque I think. I often only paint the weakness
of a person. That's the middle of all my paintings. I think some
I will put in the booklets of new CD's from me. Then I will organize
a exhibition of the paintings. But at the moments I only paint when
I can't get any sleep at night."
--Science Fiction - CMJ Magazine - Issue 64
MM:"To me science-fiction is just as valid as philosophy."
--Being many things - CMJ Magazine - Issue 64
MM:"I've always felt like: Why be one thing, which is what the rest
of the world wants you to be, when you can be so many different
things?"
--Marilyn Manson - CMJ Magazine - Issue 64
Q: Does you distinguish between Marilyn Manson the person, and Marilyn
Manson the persona?
MM:"The only way I know how to answer that is that there's no time
in my day that I'm not thinking the way I think or trying to create
something. I guess a lot of people will find it easier to classify
me and understand me if they think that when I go home I'm somebody
else. But there are plenty of different levels to my personality,
and plenty of different vibes to the way I behave. And each has
a specific purpose. But for me there's not one that's Marilyn Manson
and one that's not. It's all the same. And Marilyn Manson to me
is just another way of describing myself. It's not another person.
It's just a name. I mean, maybe there was a reason to delineate
between the two early on, but there's no reason to anymore. I don't
automatically turn into some normal guy that wears Dockers. My style,
or whatever you want to call it, well, there's a volume knob for
it I guess. Sometimes it's up high, sometimes it's down low, but
it's still kind of the sonic. I mean I wouldn't wear something that
I don't like."
--Hollywood - Dutch TV Guide - October 10, 1998
MM:"Hollywood has always attracted me. It's a strange but a fascinating
meeting place of the American culture as well. I live there now,
but also here I am an outsider in all aspects. The phenomenon Hollywood
inspires me, just because I don't belong in that caricature world
neither. In Hollywood you don't come across a lot of really creative
people. Not in the music business and not in the movie business. Everybody
plays safe, everything's predictable and so I live here according
to my own rules as well, because apparently there's no other way. In
fact I could just adapt to my surroundings, but I don't see any
use in doing that. It wouldn't give me any satisfaction either."
--Other Countries - Dutch TV Guide - October 10, 1998
MM:"I take all countries in which people are interested in me serious.
I also don't believe that Marilyn Manson is too American to have
success elsewhere. At first people might look at me in a weird way,
but the music I play sounds universal and isn't bound by country
borders.Music is always a way of escaping the daily reality. If
the music fans, wherever on earth, are able to appreciate my new
album, then I don't forsee any problem."
Q: What is your main goal?
MM:"To be able to tell people what I think, to be able to say what
I want and not care what people think about it, and to be creative
and an artist."
--Anger - Guitar World 1998
Q: So do you still harbor a lot of anger
MM:"I think there's always gonna be something to piss me off. Anybody
who has any bit of individuality or his own opinions is never going
to be satisfied in anything that he does. But I've just found that
being creative is probably the healthiest thing that you can do
I hope that my expressing that would encourage other people to do
the same, rather then seeking other ways to express it. At least
do something that contributes to society."
--Contributing to Society - Guitar World 1998
Q: What are you trying to contribute to society?
MM:"On a basic level, entertainment. On a deeper level, Thought-provoking
ideas."
--Shock - Guitar World 1998
Q: What shocks you?
MM:"Well, I'm beginning to not be shocked by people's stupidity.
I used to be suprised by it, but now I am just growing accustomed
to it. There's not much that shocks me. I think being shocked is,
in a way, a weakness, because you're letting other people affect
you so much."
--Measure Success - Manson on Manson - November 12, 1998
Q: How do you measure Sucess?
MM:"It's something more intangible, it's more an idea of moving
people, and having people speak your name, having people discuss
you, having people think about what you've done, and having some
effect on them"
--Music Critics - Manson on Manson - November 12, 1998
MM:"Music critics get their records for free so their opinions usually
don't matter."
--Parents - Manson on Manson - November 12, 1998
MM:"Kids see more from their parent's than they would anyone else.
They're the ones who should set the example."
--Willpower - Manson on Manson - November 12, 1998
MM:"Sheer willpower over talent can get you what you want. I've
proved to people that doubted me that I do have talent, but what
got me here is my willpower, my determination. That can apply to
anybody in any part of their lives. It doesn't have to be music,
it can be any sort of expression."
--Image - Chicago Tribune 1998
Q: Did you feel the shock-rock persona interfered with your music
getting its due?
MM:"I think it would be almost pretentious of me to cut back on
the imagery. In fact, the image of the band will probably just intensify
and things will become even more grandiose as we go along. It's
part of living in Hollywood. It makes you more theatrical. I used
to be called "crazy" when I didn't have any money. Now that I do,
I'm "eccentric." But I think the music is definitely going to be
there to back it up."
--Growing - Much Music - November 17, 1998
MM:"Well, just with my personality, I feel the need to grow. I get
bored easy. I think it would have been silly to repeat what I already
did. The last album changed me so much and writing a book changed
me, this is kind of the result of the change, you know, second part
to the story."
--Experience - Much Music - November 17, 1998
MM:"You can't write about something unless you live it. you can't
stand back and say, well, this is wrong or this is that. You have
to get in it and tell people about it."
--Police Officers - Much Music - November 17, 1998
MM:"I've been to jail and I've been touched in certain places by
police officers, so I'm trying to give back to the community what
they gave to me."
--Learning from Experience - Much Music - November 17, 1998
MM:"I think you learn from mistakes learned from all your experiences,
not even just as a writer, not even as a musician or spokesperson
or whatever people wanna expect me to be. Just as a person who writes
down their thoughts. It all comes from experience. So I think the
more you live, the more you have to say, so I don't regret anything
I've done."
--Image of Manson - Cream Magazine Winter 1998
Q: Has your image made you a fanny magnet?
MM:"At various stages of my career it has. Initially I tried to
present myself as unattractive and people seemed to find it appealing.
Now I’m evolving into something else and it’s all part of redefining
what beauty is. I don’t think I’m conventionally good-looking, but
I present myself in a way that, in the long run, results in a lot
of blow jobs."
--Jerry Springer - Cream Magazine Winter 1998
Q:"What’s your favorite comedy on TV?
MM:"The Jerry Springer show. It shows how low we Americans have
sunk. It’s now evolved to the point where they should give people
handguns and let them go on there and shoot each other. I think
that would be very American."
--More Intelligent Humans - Cream Magazine Winter 1998
Q: On your last tour you used a lot of imagery that looked suspiciously
Nazi-like. A bit of a fascist, are you?
MM:"I like the idea of elitism when it comes to intelligence, because
that’s a commodity that’s available to anyone. You can learn as
much as you really want to. Obviously, some people are always going
to be smarter than others, some people are mentally handicapped,
but to be as smart as you’re capable is a fair and almost politically
correct form of elitism. Fascism, when it comes to racism or sex,
is too lenient. Accept all white people? There are lots of really
ignorant white people I’d never consider my friend. Accepting all
men wouldn’t work either. But intelligence is universal and anyone
can achieve it by their own willpower. That’s a healthy, positive
thing."
--Body Hair - Cream Magazine Winter 1998
Q: And what else disgusts you?
MM:"Excessive body hair. And people who live up to stereotypes.
People who perpetuate ignorance disgust me too."
--Stupid People - Cream Magazine Winter 1998
MM:"There are really only two kinds of people in the world. People
who like Marilyn Manson - and stupid people."
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