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--MuchMusic
- November 17, 2000
MM:"Anybody who has awakened enough to see the way the world is,
you can't really contain yourself after that. A lot of people go
through life blind, and ignorance is bliss, but once you have to
do something about it instead of being negative, I try to focus
on being something positive like music."
--MuchMusic - November 17, 2000
MM:"There's always going to be someone who is trying to be more
shocking, but I think it's really too easy because you know what's
going to piss people off. I try and do things that make people think
and if it makes me think, then hopefully it will make other people
think."
--MuchMusic - November 17, 2000
MM:"Yes, I am a fighter. If you're a true nihilist, that can be
very tiring, but there are elements of true nihilism in what I do.
But that is about destroying and creating, not just destroying.
I think that's the thing that sets me apart from the people who
hate me so much, politics, because they are all about pointing out
what is bad and they want to destroy it or silence it. But whether
you like what I do or not, I am creating something. I am putting
something into the world. I think that makes me a better person
than a lot of the people that hate me."
--USA Today - November 2000
MM:"There's a real fine line between entertainers and mass murderers.
America has created an environment through the media where people
know they can get their picture on the cover of Time or Newsweek
by doing something outrageous, either as an artist or by hurting
someone. They will always put the killer on the cover before they
put the victim, because it's more dramatic for them to help sell
fear."
--USA Today - November 2000
MM:"You can't blame people's behavior on books, music, film and
video games, which are important outlets for emotions. Growing up,
I always escaped to music if things got too hard to deal with. When
you take away the things people identify with, you create these
little time bombs that eventually explode. People feel smothered
when they aren't heard."
--USA Today - November 2000
MM:"Art, by nature, has to be evil because it challenges the status
quo and what the mainstream defines as beautiful or moral or ideal.
I wanted to represent chaos, the simple upheaval of everyday regimens
and routines that trap people. That's a war I'm always willing to
fight. Columbine wasn't my war to fight. It was a wake-up call that
said, 'You're not listening to your kids.' I was no more guilty
than any other person in America."
--USA Today - November 2000
MM:"You're fighting to fit in, and you realize when you get there
that the people around you are the same ones who held you down and
humiliated you. You've finally arrived, but that bite from the apple
of knowledge is bitter and causes a resentment that turns into revolution.
Starting a band was my revolution."
--USA Today - November 2000
MM:"In some ways, I've remained this Peter Pan, trapped by my desire
to live in my imagination rather than within the standards people
impose."
--USA Today - November 2000
MM:"We're not feeding people to lions for entertainment anymore.
The times aren't more violent, they're just more televised."
--USA Today - November 2000
MM:"I've always had a desire to be provocative and to make people
think, but it wouldn't be any challenge for me just to be shocking.
That is where it begins for me, not where it stops. And I could
be much more shocking. I think I've adopted a sense of subtlety.
I don't sit around wondering how I can make myself even stranger
to the world. I've simply evolved into the monster I created, and
I'm quite happy with it."
--USA Today - November 2000
MM:"Bleeding-heart liberals. I find them very insincere, especially
in Hollywood. Those are the people I would like to punch in the
face the most. I guess a lot of people would find me more right
wing than left wing, although I find myself in both wings. That's
what lets me fly."
--Russian NTV - December 2000
MM:"Lennon was a big influence on me. The White Album by the Beatles
was released the same year I was born. It was the first records
which talked about violence. It has a lot of weird irony. Although
we have different views on music, I think we're somewhat alike.
He wanted to change the world, he used his personal image to influence
the society. I respect this and I'm trying to do the same."
--Kerrang - January 2001
MM:"It’s always amusing to me. Recently, the most amusing incident
took place in Santa Barbara, where the Christian protestors were
handing out pizza to the fans. I found it very odd that they were
trying to spread the word of Christ through a Domino’s stuffed crust."
--Kerrang - January 2001
MM:"You always fall into a routine at home, but I’m also fond of
staying in hotels. Maybe it’s because I’ve done it so much, or maybe
it’s because when I wake up and am too lazy or hungover to walk
to the bathroom, I can always piss on the floor because it’s not
my house. On tour I only need movies, music and clothing. There’s
not too much stuff that I rely on so I can function pretty well
on the road."
--Kerrang - January 2001
MM:"Everything has become such a product now that angst and heaviness
are just as packageable as fake tits and boy bands. Nothing against
fake tits, of course. Bands like us and Slipknot haven’t exploded
in the same way as Limp Bizkit or even Papa Roach have, and that’s
the way a band like Marilyn Manson should always be. Rock music
has crossed over and while some of the lowest common denominator
music has really caught on, I’m glad to say that the real, genuine,
challenging music has remained honest and out there."
--Kerrang - January 2001
MM:"The support for Marilyn Manson in the UK is probably better
than it is in America right now. A lot of bands don’t appreciate
Europe, they think it’s a pain in the ass, but I like coming here.
I’m more and more tempted to move here. I don’t know where yet because
I haven’t seen all of it, but it’s a possibility."
--Kerrang - January 2001
MM:"Coming to Europe the first time gave me a better perspective
on what’s good and bad about America and it gave me a different
outlook on how people respect music and religion. Everything is
looked at quite differently here, so Europe gave me a better understanding
of my role in the world and in culture, and it enabled me to open
my mind. I also learned that wherever you go there is always a McDonalds.
Incidentally, I’m just wondering if mad cow disease came about because
somebody had sex with a cow? That’s how everything comes about:
somebody fucked something that they weren’t supposed to."
--Rock Sound - January 2001
MM:"I’ve read a lot of things, particularly about symbolism, and
crowd manipulation goes back to Julius Caesar - when he raised his
hand, the crowd reacted in a certain way. It can be very powerful,
it’s a magical thing to happen between a performer and a leader.
But you have to understand it and appreciate it and know how to
use it, and a lot of people don't and it's very dangerous. Woodstock
‘99 was a good example, there were bands antagonising the crowd
in a way they couldn't control so it turned into a catastrophe.
Reality sets things apart when you’re in a situation like that.
It’s not manipulated, it's about creating a tornado inside a building
and being able to keep it from tearing the walls down. Controlled
chaos is what it is."
--Rock Sound - January 2001
MM:"Being provocative is second nature to me, but I do try and push
people to re-evaluate what they believe in and question why they
believe in those things."
--Rock Sound - January 2001
MM:"Obviously I don’t want people to forget about me, but it’s more
the need to be always creating, being able to paint, write a song,
make a video or whatever. It’s the one thing that really makes me
happy, so I just have to do it. I wouldn’t say I’m a workaholic,
because I don’t consider what I do as work as such, it's just what
I am. I'm not the kind of person who can deal with having time off."
--LA Weekly - January 12-18, 2001
MM:"The best thing about the election is that their names are very
similar to sex and violence. Bush and Gore, the two things that
make the world go 'round."
--LA Weekly - January 12-18, 2001
MM:"About eight years ago, I used to like to take LSD and go to
Disney World, because it kind of transported you back into time,
and you're like a child again. The one thing that scared me the
most was, I was going through Frontier World, and they were selling
these big, I guess they were, like, chicken legs. They looked like
something from the Flintstones, and these people were gnawing on
'em, and they just had grease all over their faces, and meat was
coming out of their mouths. And there were all these sea gulls flocked
around, and it looked like the people were eating the sea gulls,
and the sea gulls were eating the scraps, and it was this big cannibalistic
freak-out."
--LA Weekly - January 12-18, 2001
MM:"I feel that there's still a strong amount of journalism in what
I do, because I'm really just looking at the world and giving people
my opinion."
--LA Weekly - January 12-18, 2001
MM:"I absolutely did not deserve to have a record deal, the way
that I sounded. It's just practice over the years. I was always
afraid to take lessons, because I thought that they would unlearn
the rawness, the characteristics that made it likable. I think that
I've kind of come into my own."
--LA Weekly - January 12-18, 2001
MM:"I've never lived in a house before. I grew up in a duplex. I
lived in apartments all my life with my parents
-- we couldn't afford a house. So I feel fortunate that I've gotten
to the point in my life where I can actually have a house, and I
don't leave it very much."
--LA Weekly - January 12-18, 2001
MM:"I started reading more about symbolism
-- Jung and people like that
-- and how symbols are all around us, and if you recognize them,
you see the path."
--LA Weekly - January 12-18, 2001
MM:"If you operate under controlled chaos, it puts you back in a
very primitive, childish state of mind. Because when you're a kid,
you don't really think about the rules. And that's how I play as
a musician. 'Cause I'm not schooled, and I couldn't even name the
notes on a piano, but I can play melodies and I can write things.
But I do it like a kid, and I find that that is something that keeps
me going, and it's also artistically something that just keeps your
imagination open. You're not limited. You just do it, and sometimes
you come up with your best things."
--LA Weekly - January 12-18, 2001
MM:"I'm just trying to keep my mind open. I don't ever try and paint
myself in a corner. I feel like if you're open to new ideas, that
puts you in a position for rebirth, resurrecting. That's what keeps
you moving."
--Interview Magazine - February 2001
MM: It's a great movie. If they remake it and ruin it, I'm gonna
be very upset, unless I get to play Willy Wonka, because I could
play that role like nobody else could. I really see that movie as
a metaphor. I see Willy Wonka as Satan because he presents people
with the temptation of picking good and evil, and they all pick
evil. It's such a powerful statement to put into a children's film.
The chocolate's a metaphor for sin. He's always tempting them with
that and they always pick the bad thing. That just shows you man's
nature. Charlie and his grandfather redeem themselves. Charlie wasn't
giving up the Gobstopper so that he would win the chocolate factory,
he was giving it up because he thought it was the right thing to
do. He did a good deed that didn't revolve around his own greed.
He actually did an honest deed, which is a rare thing. It had a
beautiful message."
--MatroActive Music (no date)
"The only thing that I dislike about religion is the way people
use it to hurt other people. I don't have a problem with the idea
of God or what's in the Bible. I just don't think anyone can own
a copyright on it, because it's something you should interpret for
yourself."
"I've always thought," Manson adds, "it was ironic and insulting
that someone wants to blame me for making music when I'm doing something
positive by not hurting others, instead putting my anger into a
song. I think that's a positive thing. I think artists should
be commended for what they do, not silenced."
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