Times when Marilyn Manson outclassed interviewers

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If you spoke directly to the children of Columbine and the people of that community, what would you say to them if they were here right now? I don't say a word to them I would listen to what they have to say and that's what no one did I don't understand why you chose Catholicism why you go with the cross with God with the Pope for me she has lost her religion because from looking at listening to him and other musicians she is no longer Catholic she no longer has a religion and that is what bothers me well you know it could be because it was your religion and what maybe wasn't supposed to be hers is fine and that most kids don't They understand what you're doing and why you're using the f-word and why you're acting strangely and this can be very worrying for kids who have no direction and don't have responsible parents. it can be misinterpreted people can look at Christ on a cross and think this is an image of murder this is violent this has sexual imagery and it's just that I think it's my job as an artist to be out there and push people's buttons and make them Question everything and I respect you for challenging me and that's why I came on the show.

You got it, let me say something. I have done this particularly on this album with the images I used. I tried to see the things they taught me. Growing up with Christianity in a different way, you know, I looked at the image of Christ on the cross and the story of him as someone who was a revolutionary with dangerous ideas and I started saying to myself, "Oh, now I can relate to this." history". I think I'm ruling it out, but I'm going to interpret it a different way, so everyone should keep an open mind. I'm sure

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you were young you didn't want to listen to what your parents said.

They were trying to tell you to believe and I'm going to find your own, maybe one day you'll become a nun. You do not know. Two byproducts of that whole tragedy were violence, entertainment, and gun control, and how perfect that was. two things we were going to talk about in the next election and we also forgot about Monica Lewinsky and we forgot that the president was setting off bombs overseas, but I'm a bad guy because I sang some rock and roll songs and it was an influence older, the president or Marilyn Manson, you know? I'd like to thank me, but I'll go with the president.

What is your message? What are you trying to convey in the lyrics of these songs? It's always about being yourself and not. be ashamed of being different or thinking differently I try to take everyone's ideals, common morals, turn them on their head, make people look at it differently, question them so that you don't always take things for granted, it's okay, for example, you start Bible pages. at your concert you wipe your butt with the American flag, some of these things I have to admit are absolutely controversial. I mean, they're designed to make people think with the point of the Bible or the flags to say that it's only as valid as you make it. in your heart a piece of paper a piece of paper or a piece of cloth means something it's what you believe and I want people to think about what they believe I want them to consider if everything they've been taught if that's what they believe I want to believe it , that's what they've been told, that they have to believe that you're a pretty well-spoken guy, but on your records you use a lot of F-words, a lot of bad words on the sunette again, is it necessary some

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When you're making a point, I don't think my lyrics are riddled with bad words because I myself don't speak using a lot of bad words in a normal conversation, but I think

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you're saying something aggressive and you need to. one point if you are angry sometimes it is necessary to say bad words it is better to use a bad word than to hurt someone else. I find it good. I think if parents spent more time trying to censor rock music, art, movies and things like that, they would spend more time. spend time teaching your children to appreciate and understand those things and to know what is right and what is wrong.

I think that means more time is spent on it. He can take some of your lyrics, since you know you'll understand him when he's dead. I mean, disturbed kids might. take the letter and say: you know when I am dead, everyone will know me well. I think it's a very valid point and I think it's a reflection of a not necessary show, but television in general, if you die and enough people watch it, then you become a martyr, you become a hero, so when you have things like Columbine and you have these kids that are angry and have something to say and no one listens, the media sends a message that if you do something loud enough and it gets our attention then I'll be famous that's why those kids ended up on the cover of Time magazine the media gave exactly what they wanted that's why I never did any interviews when that happened when they blamed me because I felt like I would be contributing to what is considered reprehensible so you don't think your songs reflect any kind of suicidal desire or anything for the style.

No, I feel like my songs were about overcoming feelings like that. History sees that everyone wants to have sex. The world exchanges it through sex. God, what you did is that teenage boys are going to have sex no matter what that's not necessarily true at all, no it's not. I actually had a lot of teenage classmates when I was a teenager and not all of them were running around looking. I was at school and it was going in a very dark direction that we didn't really understand, we couldn't connect with it, so we took it out of school and now He's homeschooled and I feel like you can't criticize something you know nothing about, so I went to concerts with him.

I am convinced that Marilyn Manson is a real rock and roll star. I believe in him. He has helped my son be himself in many things. of adversity and garbage and I know that applies to everyone in this room, what if you want to blame rock music for things? Think about what the Bible has done, about Heaven's Gate, about Jim Jones or the Ku Klux Klan, about what they do in you hate your brother, you are a liar and God is not me, I'm not ready, I'm just saying what people think. joins the name of the Bible is a liar in God so you know context is taking Friedrich Miescher out of context but the Bible certainly increases the inspiration for an incredibly fun Bible like that gravity.

I like the Bible. I'm just saying I don't like playing with people in shoes that no matter how much people can accomplish a mission, they can make it the standard in Do you know that the day Columbine happened, the United States dropped more bombs on Kosovo than any other country? another time during that war? I know and I think that's really ironic. You know no one said well, maybe the president had an influence on this. violent behavior because that's not how the media wants to take it and spin it and turn it into fear because then you're watching TV, you're watching the news or you're full of fear and there's floods, there's AIDS, there's murders, cut to commercial. for the Acura for the Colgate if you have bad breath they are not going to talk to you if you have pimples the girls are not going to talk to you and this is just a campaign of fear and consumption and that is what I think the whole idea is based on that everyone They are afraid and will consume what standards you have and where you draw the line as to what is good and what is bad.

I have basic principles that exist in all religions, Christianity, that's yeah, well. basics, you know you don't kill people, you know a basic good person, okay, so your time is yours, you know they're not safe, you're a minister of the, you know the Sake Church, I'm not a minister, are you? OK? because I don't know, ret Rolling Stone, yeah, I heard you were in the Church of Satan. I assume you read Anton LaVey's Satanic Bible. I read both Bibles. Okay, there are two errors. It has Ten Commandments, not some suggestions and there is a commandment in the Book of Satan, what is that commandment?

I don't know, I don't preach the crocodile bar, no, I don't see it in my 14 or 16 year old son and you say in the concert he states what you are feeling, do you remember what you felt at that age? Yes, I want to upset my parents.