--Only thing he fears - MTV Europe Headbangers Ball December 10 1996 MM:"Usually if I'm afraid, I just take it on. I do it, then I'm not afraid of it anymore. I think the only thing I fear is failure. So I just try my hardest to do the best at what I do."
--Killing - America Online Interview MM:"I don't advocate killing, but killing is killing. Except I don't believe that what Charles Manson did is any worse than what my dad did in Vietnam. At least Manson had a reason."
--Why do you do this? - America Online Interview MM:"Because it's the only way I can deal with life."
--Rock Star - Access Magazine November 1996 issue 20 MM:"I've always wanted a lot of people to hear what I have to say. I've always wanted to be a rock star. It wasn't something that I was trying to avoid, because I think people need an anti-hero to come along and show them the other side and the more people that hear that the better."
--Journalism - Request Magazine MM:"I even considered being a journalist, but I realized that I wanted to have people write about me, instead of write about them."
--Sweet Dreams - Request Magazine MM:"Sweet dreams was a carefully placed piece of cheese on a rat trap. That lured in a lot of people that wouldn't of normally heard of Marilyn Manson. But in that they got their neck snapped on the rat trap. They didn't bargain for the other stuff they were gonna get."
--Being Moody - Request Magazine MM:"I only know I'm moody because people tell me I am. I know it's hard for people to have a relationship with me, because my moods change so drastically. I can be very pissed off, and turn that off in a minute and be in a good mood again. It can go the other way too. I guess I'm just very sensitive to what goes on around me. People expect me to be insensitive because of my extreme behavior, but it's really a reflection of how sensitive I am. If I wasn't sensitive, I wouldn't be so pissed off and feel so strong about things."
--Memory - MTV Europe Headbangers Ball December 10 1996 MM:"I try to do things in a way that people remember' em and that makes people Think."
--Do you want to become innocent again? - Guitar School Magazine MM:"That's what 'Smells Like Children' was about. It was a metaphor for wanting to be a kid again, and wishing that I hadn't been exposed to all the things I have been exposed to, so that I once again could be pure."
--What is the source of your energy? - Guitar School Magazine MM:"It would be easier to say what isn't the source. It's everything. I'm a person who watches everything. When I go places I watch people. I listen to what my dreams are doing. I listen to voices on cellular phones that I'm not suppose to be hearing. I listen to conversations people have. I'm in tune with everything. When you get to the frequency where everything is audible to you, then you find everything really ties together. It can be scary for some people, but if you're a part of it, it's kind of exciting."
--The World - Guitar School Magazine MM:"The world doesn't revolve around the sun, it revolves around a giant cock. That is what the world is about. It's about sex. Anybody who doesn't want to realize this is fooling themselves. People are bored because they've done everything they can do. So now the fear of death is the only thing that gets them excited. That's why some people have made me into some type of sex symbol. I'm death on wheels the way I look."
--Ideas growing up MM:"I had lots of different ideas but no real way to express them, and I decided that music would be the way to make them last forever."
--Good & Evil - Huh Magazine October 1996 MM:"Good and Evil is the balance that makes a person. People have the potiental to be good, but man as an animal is, by nature, evil because it's the whole Garden of Eden thing, man chose the wrong path."
--About his parents - Huh Magazine October 1996 MM:"I don't think they understand everything I do."
--Jeans - Kerrang Magazine November 1996 MM:"The most outrageous thing I could imagine ever doing is putting on a pair of jeans and going to the shopping mall for my lunch. That would be pretty gross."
--Hating the way Marilyn Manson looks MM:"That's not wrong, that's a part of human nature. The old saying of looks don't matter, I don't agree with that. It's very important. The way you look is how you represent yourself to people and that's why I look the way I do. I want people to know what I'm about by looking at me. So if they see a picture and they don't like it. Maybe they're not supposed to, it's not right for them. I don't disrespect them."
--Young Teens or Pre Teens listening to Marilyn Manson - Metal Maniacs Magazine Feb 1997 MM:"That's the age when I think people are really trying to find themselves and are looking to find an icon. It's the same age when I got into music."
--Do your fans become scared, converted, entertained or what? - Guitar School Magazine MM:"It's like an amusement park. It's part of people nature to be attracted to their own death and to fear. That's why this record is three cycles of death happening, and that's why people will gravitate toward it. Whether in outrage or in open arms, people will gravitate toward it."
--To the Fans - Circus Magazine January 1997 MM:"It's really important for me to get across to our fans that whenever I put myself in different circumstances. It is to learn from it so I can relay it to others."
--So what do you hate? - Details Magazine December 1996 MM:"I hate when I go somewhere and people are smiling and laughing and having a good time. It makes me depressed."
--Something Important to do - Details Magazine December 1996 MM:"I've had this sense since I was a kid that I've got something important to do."
--What's left to do for the twenty first century? - Details Magazine December 1996 MM:"We can't go any further without starting over. It's like what sexual positions are left, what other violence can you show, what other drugs can you do, what other thing can you get pierced? It's all been done. Sickly enough, maybe we can all be excited by the taboos once again."
--Till then what is your guilty pleasure? - Details Magazine December 1996 MM:"Watching the 700 club hoping they'll mention me."
--What shocks you? - Guitar World December 1996 MM:"I get shocked by people smoking cigarettes sometimes. I get shocked by watching talk shows. Peoples moralities are so far below what I would consider standard. SAT results should be directly linked to a death sentence. Those who don't reach a certain score would be executed."
--Life - Hit Parader Magazine December 1996 MM:"Everything I possess is about appreciating life and not wasting it."
--The Band - Hit Parader Magazine December 1996 MM:"I am only 27. We are a young band with a very long way to go. I have always loved that general icon impact. We hope to be around for a long time to come but we still need to establish ourselves in a way that those great people have inspired us."
--The song title "Man That You Fear" - Metal Edge Magazine January 1997 MM:"It's accepting things for the way that they are and whether that's dying in the world, or if it's being born again or whatever. That's going to be for people to decide how they want to really apply that, but for me that was the way for me to finish this whole thing."
--Children - RIP Magazine November 1996 MM:"I've found fantasy television shows to be a greater escape. The imagination is something that should be appreciated. That's why I think children are innately magic, because they realize the power of their minds and haven't been de-purified by television."
--Creativity - Huh Magazine October 1996 MM:"If someone listen's to our music, and it makes them creative, that makes me happier than anything."
--End of the World -Metal Edge January 1997 MM:"The end of the world was always something that fascinated me since I was 13, because I was told that it was coming. I kept staying up every night being terrified about the end of the world and at some point when I finally realized that it wasn't happening I guess I almost became what I was afraid of."
--You've been in the Fan position? - Metal Edge Magazine January 1997 MM:"Yeah and have been scarred by other bands the same way people have been scarred by me."
--Grandfather - Spin Magazine March 1997 MM:"He had this train set in his basement, and when he turned on the train, it was to mask the sound of his masturbating. I would tell my parents, but nobody would believe me. He was the one who convinced me that things were supposed to be pure and American. But they weren't."
--Fans - Spin Magazine March 1997 MM:"No matter how much they love you, they want a tragedy.
--Do you want to be remembered? - RIP Magazine November 1996 MM:"Absolutely. I believe your remembrance is your immortality. What you leave in this world is that part of you that lives on forever."
--Being Lonely with an Imagination - Metal Edge Magazine January 1997 MM:"I think that when you're a lonely person, your imagination is your best friend. So I think it comes from that, my childhood."
--As a Kid - Huh Magazine October 1996 MM:"Escapism was what it was about for me. I didn't really like and wasn't the person that I wanted to be in the world, so I was the person I wanted to be in my own head."
--Something Strong - Huh Magazine October 1996 MM:"I don't care if something's good or bad or if it's Christian or Anti-Christian. I want something that's strong, something that believes in itself."
--How do you see yourself 5 years from now? - Hit Parader Magazine December 1996 MM:"Either dead or the biggest rock band in the world. We'll see what happens. We know our fans will be there for us."
--Tidal Waves - CMJ January 1997 MM:"Without being self agrandizing. I've seen the little tidal waves that I've caused in the music industry, and how people are becoming more evolved in their images. And there are a lot of new Marilyn Mansonesque people, but I don't get mad at those things. It's like there's one real Santa Claus, but there's a lot of fake ones at the mall."
--Human Shit - Kerrang Magazine December 14 1996 MM:"I've never smoked human shit, but I'm willing to try."
--Imagination - Kerrang Magazine December 14 1996 MM"Well I hope that with our music we can inspire other people to be creative and to use their imagination, because it is something that is so lacking nowadays. You have virtual reality, MTV, video games and VCR's. Nobody really wants to think about things or create things. You have programs on a computer which will write a poem for you."
--Beautiful People - CMJ January 1997 MM"The Beautiful People is a statement on the fascism of beauty. With commercialism and television, everything's completely dictated to you, and if you don't fit into the status quo. You're made to feel not as good as everyone else."
--Criticism - Hit Parader Mgazine February 1997 MM:"I could care less about what people in the music business have to say, or what they think of me or my music. The music on our record speaks for itself. Were happy with it and that's enough. So far our fans seem to be happy too. That's all that really matters."
--Critics - Hit Parader Magazine February 1997 MM:"It doesn't bother me because I've never been bothered by what critics say."
--What would you be doing if you weren't in music? - Zine September 24 1994 MM:"I think I might be a third grade teacher or a TV evangelist. Something where I could be getting at peoples minds when they're most vulnerable."
--What does your Mom make of all of this? - Guitar World Magazine MM:"She's very supportive. She feels responsible, so she has no other choice but to accept it. It's a whole other story if I gotta talk about my mom. She doesn't play guitar so I shouldn't say anything."
--What scares you. - September 24 1994 MM:"Probably myself. The fear of losing control of myself. That's probably my biggest fear. I hate weak people. I always try to be in control of my life. I think my biggest fear is being weak."
--How would you raise your kids? - September 24 1994 MM:"Yeah I do want to have kids someday and I would show them everything. I wouldn't hold anything back from them. I think if you show kids reality and stop trying to protect them from it, then they can handle it."
--What influences your music? - CFNY May 30 1996 MM:"I'm influenced by everything I see around me. I take in a lot. I'm kind of a observer, I like to sit around and watch people. I like to see how people do things. I try to put myself through a lot of different experiences so I can learn from them. I've done a lot of things in my time, done a lot of drugs, done a lot of messed up things, and gone through it and seen it all, and been back and I feel like I've got a good outlook on everything now that I've experienced everything. So I just try and take everything in. There's no one thing that inspires me."
--Raising Children - Mmslgrl December 4 1996 - Twiggy Ramirez TR:"We want to raise the children the parents aren't raising."
--I guess Marilyn Manson isn't really Politically Correct at all? - Mmslgrl December 4 1996 TR:"We aren't any Ism's or Ist's either. We aren't racist. We just are. We just exist. That's why we did the song Rock and Roll Nigger. That's how we feel. I think we're more outcast than any group of people. No one cares about kids like us. We are outcasts. I identify with artists like Dr. Dre more than I do with any other bands."
--MM:"I think every man and woman is a star. It's just a matter of realizing and becoming it. It's all a matter of willpower. The world is just how you see it. If you want to have other people tell you how to see it, then you can. But if you want to look at it differently, then it's limitless what you can do. That's why I don't feel the need to be one person. I can be as many people as I like."
--MM:"I hate sports, in fact I don't even acknowledge they exist." --A Message in their Work? SUB-TEXT - MTV Europe December 10 1996 MM:"I hope so, I mean I don't expect everyone to get something deep out of it. Some people can just listen to the music, or get their aggressions out, but I think with any great painting or movie, album or whatever it is. It's better if people can take what they need form it. That they're not forced to get some particular message."
--Selling Souls / Fallen Angel - CFNY May 30 1996 MM:"Well that's absolutely true, I , of course did sell my soul to get to this place. But the thing is, you have to understand that that's what it's about. If you don't get your message across to people, then what's the point of having a message."
--Selling Souls / Fallen Angel - Guitar School Magazine Marilyn Manson Is the fact that you are a kingpen of rebellion a sign that the world is ending or what? MM:"Absolutely. Things need to go to a point of extremism in order to be Born-again. Things need to go past that point as far as they can go, and then we'll become innocent again. It's my job to sort of cleanse the world of all its sins. I'm offering myself up as a sacrifice to the world to become innocent again."
--You are calling for Armageddon. Why would you want the world to end? - Guitar World MM:"Because the way it is. It's not a great place anymore and it can't be. I'm sure it would have been much more enjoyable to be alive in the fifties, when there was at least an illusion of purity, and things that were taboo had such a great power to them. I think it was a time when magic was really alive. There's no imagination anymore. It was eliminated with video games and VCR's. I'm only necessary because of the way the world is. Well, maybe if I manage to make the world a better place then maybe I'd want to have a kid."
--On Serial Killers - Underscope Magazine MM:"It's not out of the question. If I hadn't found a way to express myself through music. Then I could have ended up that way. They're just people. There's not much that separates us from them. That's why people are so fascinated with them.
--Films MM:"Films and things like that are really my first love, so when we get to make videos, it's just as important as the song. To me it's not a commercial, for me it's a whole work of art on its own. So we plan on working on a movie and things like that in the future."
--Movie - Guitar World December 1996 MM:"I saw a movie yesterday that made me feel like I wasn't out of my mind. I believe that when you give your imagination enough room to run wild, the border between what's real and what's not can be crossed and interchanged and swapped. Even something as stupid as that Walt Disney movie, The Santa Clause has a theme that belief is really what makes things real. That's a key to everything we do."
--Music Videos - Kerrang Magazine December 14 1996 MM:"We actually didn't spend as much money as you might imagine on videos. The thing we've always done is if you're given less money and less time to work, you're always more creative. And I've always liked to be a big part of the visual element of the videos. Because it's us we're presenting, not just some directors idea of what the song is."
--Creating a Character MM:"Right as a writer, Antichrist Superstar was something that was created and then it's something that then created where it came from. If you create a personality that's all powerful and all knowing then it has the power to control and create the person who made it at the same time."
--Madonna - RIP Magazine November 1996 MM"At first she wasn't accepted and neither was I but any pioneer has to take a few arrows in his back in order for others to follow. And in history, any form of art, ideology, or religion that have been against the status quo, people have always tried to keep it down. But Time changes that."
--Delusional Self MM:"Coincidence happens a lot, as does deja vu. I suffer from the psychological problem known as "Delusional Self" when you believe that every coincidence in your life is related. I don't consider it to be a disorder. I consider it a higher form of awareness."
--Shock - Guitar World Magazine December 1996 MM:"If I wanted to be purely shocking I could do much more that would be offensive. I just try to express myself in a particular way that grabs peoples attention. But it's never about shock value. It's a vehicle to express myself and get people to listen. There's so much out there to see, you really have to make things powerful in order for them to leave a mark. Everybody has an image. Ours is just more flamboyant. There are much more bands out there that have much more stronger and offensive images than we do. But the thing is. Nobody cares because they don't have the same songs to support it."