'''Chris Macias''': You've sometimes described yourself as shy and you're always soft-spoken and articulate during interviews. But onstage, you're up there literally creating new scars for yourself and going wild. At what point does this transformation take place?<br/>

'''Chris Macias''': You've sometimes described yourself as shy and you're always soft-spoken and articulate during interviews. But onstage, you're up there literally creating new scars for yourself and going wild. At what point does this transformation take place?<br/>

'''Marilyn Manson''': For me, I suppose it's very exaggerated because that's the way I prefer to enjoy my life. When you interact with an audience, it can be very magical, like an invocation of something. I think that's my whole approach with art. The stuff I make isn't complete until someone else experiences it. I don't make things for myself. I can't live without creating, but I create art and music for other people to be affected by it. But the idea of what Marilyn Manson as an entity represents, it's always going to be what's in my imagination.<br/>

'''Marilyn Manson''': For me, I suppose it's very exaggerated because that's the way I prefer to enjoy my life. When you interact with an audience, it can be very magical, like an invocation of something. I think that's my whole approach with art. The stuff I make isn't complete until someone else experiences it. I don't make things for myself. I can't live without creating, but I create art and music for other people to be affected by it. But the idea of what Marilyn Manson as an entity represents, it's always going to be what's in my imagination.<br/>