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'''Who are some artists that you would like to collaborate with?'''
 
'''Who are some artists that you would like to collaborate with?'''
  
I have some plans to do more work with [[Shooter Jennings]]. He and I recorded for his album a cover of [[David Bowie]]'s "[[Cat People (Putting Out Fire)|Cat People]]," and we also wanna do some more music together. I did a couple songs with [[Johnny Depp]] recently before he left to go to Australia. And I plan on starting, maybe this week or next week when I've got some time, with starting with [[Twiggy]] on going back to the core of where Marilyn Manson started. And there's a strong possibility of doing something with [[Billy Corgan]], while we're out on the road together. And [[Jonathan Davis]] from KORN and I plan on doing something together.
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I have some plans to do more work with [[Shooter Jennings]]. He and I recorded for his album a cover of [[David Bowie]]'s "[[Cat People]]," and we also wanna do some more music together. I did a couple songs with [[Johnny Depp]] recently before he left to go to Australia. And I plan on starting, maybe this week or next week when I've got some time, with starting with [[Twiggy]] on going back to the core of where Marilyn Manson started. And there's a strong possibility of doing something with [[Billy Corgan]], while we're out on the road together. And [[Jonathan Davis]] from KORN and I plan on doing something together.
  
 
'''Hi Marilyn, thanks for hanging out with us tonight!'''
 
'''Hi Marilyn, thanks for hanging out with us tonight!'''
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'''Any cool stories about The Matrix set?'''
 
'''Any cool stories about The Matrix set?'''
  
I never went on the Matrix set! I do recall meeting the Wachowskis that directed it, and they had me into their strange office-building that they were working out of, and it seemed very much like something that would be in a movie. And I'd not seen the movie. And they asked if they could put "[[Rock Is Dead|Rock is Dead]]" in the original one, and the timing when the video came out, there were clips in the film of Keanu wearing a trenchcoat with a gun, and then Columbine happened, and we all know how ''that'' turned out... And then ironically this year, Keanu Reeves comes back this year, with JOHN WICK, also gun-oriented, and put my song "[[Killing Strangers]]" in the film twice. So I think that sometimes, once again, life comes around full-circle. And one door was closed, and so you throw a rock through a different window, I decided.
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I never went on the Matrix set! I do recall meeting the Wachowskis that directed it, and they had me into their strange office-building that they were working out of, and it seemed very much like something that would be in a movie. And I'd not seen the movie. And they asked if they could put "[[Rock is Dead]]" in the original one, and the timing when the video came out, there were clips in the film of Keanu wearing a trenchcoat with a gun, and then Columbine happened, and we all know how ''that'' turned out... And then ironically this year, Keanu Reeves comes back this year, with JOHN WICK, also gun-oriented, and put my song "[[Killing Strangers]]" in the film twice. So I think that sometimes, once again, life comes around full-circle. And one door was closed, and so you throw a rock through a different window, I decided.
  
 
'''What was it like collaborating with [[Eminem]] on the remix of [[The Way I Am (Danny Lohner Remix)|The Way I Am]]?'''
 
'''What was it like collaborating with [[Eminem]] on the remix of [[The Way I Am (Danny Lohner Remix)|The Way I Am]]?'''
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'''Hi Marilyn, I loved the photos with you and [[Hugh Warner|your father]], they were brilliant and funny and touching. I wondered how hard was it for them (your parents ) to accept your image, the gothic look you have and the rumors or if it was something that came easy to them?'''
 
'''Hi Marilyn, I loved the photos with you and [[Hugh Warner|your father]], they were brilliant and funny and touching. I wondered how hard was it for them (your parents ) to accept your image, the gothic look you have and the rumors or if it was something that came easy to them?'''
  
Well, [[Barbara Warner|my mother]] (when she was alive and when I was growing up) LOVED Elvis. So that was probably the inspiration behind me dying my hair black, in some way.
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Well, [[Barb Warner|my mother]] (when she was alive and when I was growing up) LOVED Elvis. So that was probably the inspiration behind me dying my hair black, in some way.
  
 
My father wanted me to follow his footsteps, and become a salesman.
 
My father wanted me to follow his footsteps, and become a salesman.
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I'm a person that hugs.
 
I'm a person that hugs.
 
'''I really enjoy [[:Category:Acoustic versions of Marilyn Manson songs|your acoustic material]]. It sounds so raw. Is there a possibility of you recording an unplugged/acoustic album?'''
 
 
Um...as a matter of fact, that's some of the plans, of the style of music that I'm working on right now. I don't know what it'll turn into. Some of it will be with Jonathan Davis, I think. Because he has plans of doing something similar as well. Something that might even cross over the boundaries of being more Southern-sounding.
 
 
It is strange, when I think about it - I did record "[[Smells Like Children]]' in Mississippi, which is where the blues came from. So there might be something more acoustic and blues in my future.
 
 
I like the rawness of it.
 
 
I definitely like the rawness.
 
 
'''Sir, how do you eat your eggs?'''
 
 
Sunny side up.
 
 
'''What is your favorite untrue rumor you have heard spread about you?'''
 
 
Hmmm.
 
 
Well, there's always - I never can really pick one. But the one that never goes away, and it's never been my favorite, is that I had a rib removed.
 
 
The other one is even more strange, just the idea that people don't - it's not so much a rumor, the idea that people will never really know or understand me from afar.
 
 
It's a one-dimensional thing. Sometimes people treat me like I'm a cartoon character, or I'm something that isn't a real person, and they don't realize that I'm actually a human being.
 
 
Maybe that's not one of the worst ones, but someone has to have some sort of emotions to be an artist in the first place.
 
 
Or at least pretend that I do, when it comes to it.
 
 
'''Are you truly a satanist? What's your view on that'''
 
 
I've never considered myself a Satanist. I was a part of the Church of Satan, with an honorary position, simply because it was one philosophy - because I've never looked at it as a religion. [[Anton LaVey]] (who wrote the book THE SATANIC BIBLE) taught me a lot of things about life. You know, I've been a scholar - self-taught, self-read - I wouldn't want to limit my view on the possibilities of what there is out there in the spiritual realm to just one thing. Because there's always something new to open your mind. To let you see things from a different angle. I do believe in the power of the mind, and the power of certain things. I think that music definitely has to have some element that back in the beginning - and I'm not talking about once Christianity took over America, blaming Rock n' Roll for bad things - I mean back in the times when music was first invented, and the chords that were used in most rock n' roll music, they were considered evil - because I think when you put those notes together, they have the ability to disrupt or distract the brain from whatever sort of "virus" of language that religion is, in a sense.
 
 
If you have things like a Bible from any different religion - it does have a powerful reign over people's minds. And music does as well. So there had to be something - if we go by religion's view of "good vs. evil" - that would be evil, meaning it didn't agree with those views.
 
 
'''How do you feel about people with marilyn manson tattoos?.'''
 
 
I feel flattered - whenever people tell me or ask me about getting one, I always advise against it. Because I tell them "if you hate me, you're not going to like the tattoo."
 
 
So if it's something that makes people happy - it's just another mark on your body, it's just another part of your history or your tale. It's another tattoo that tells a story about you.
 
 
'''Your [[:Category:Marilyn Manson paintings|watercolour]] artwork is amazing - how did you get into using watercolours as your preferred medium? Any specific artistic influences?'''
 
 
I started using watercolors when I was recording "Mechanical Animals" one night when I had some time off in the studio. I was waiting for something else to be recorded. I went to the drugstore, I just purchased a kid's set of watercolors, then started painting. And I found it to be a calming thing for me when I couldn't get my creativity out musically, I was able to paint. And that just became part of my life. I use watercolors because they remind me of stains, like a bloodstain. And I think influences, I would say, Egon Scheille and Salvador Dali and Marcel Duchamp. All 3 for different reasons.
 
 
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Someone asked if I would do anything differently looking back on my career: I probably would've been a little less lenient with the way I handled some of the people who betrayed me in the music business. I would have ruled more with an iron fist. But that would have not led me to where I am now, where I have a greater sense of control. So it really frees ambition, to be back in the spot where I have total control over what happens - from the music happens, to recording it, there was a period at my last record label where when I would control the music, I would be record the music that I wanted, but when they got their hands on it, the way they treated it as a product wasn't the way I would've treated it. I probably should've beaten some people about it. But I'm glad to be where I am now.
 
 
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'''When life gets to be too much, what or where is your happy place?'''
 
 
I'd say with Lily White, my cat. When I'm sad, or if I just need alone time, she'll come up to me, and she knows, and she'll usually lie on my head. Or she'll come up and meow, like she did just now - like she knows it's dinner time.
 
 
But I like to distract myself by watching movies. It takes my mind out of my own world, and puts it somewhere else. And it's helpful for me.
 
 
'''Who gets ''you'' starstruck?'''
 
 
When I see movies that I like, I always identify with the person that I see, and if they're a great actor, then when I see them in person, I still think of them as the character in the movie. So I get excited. I'm not jaded, especially living in Hollywood, you'd think I'd be jaded from meeting a lot of people that are famous, or people that you respect. And I'm not jaded.
 
 
'''Smooth or crunchy peanut butter?'''
 
 
Smooth.
 
 
'''Oh cool! Thanks for hanging out with us!'''
 
 
'''What's something you wish more people knew about you?'''
 
 
Less.
 
 
''Heheheh.''
 
 
'''Several years back, I was visiting my girlfriend in Lyon, France. On one of my first nights there, we went into town with her brother, and found a bar. Due to a musical festival happening in the streets, we were the only people in there. In walk two guys who were clearly not french. I overheard them speaking american English and bought them a drink'''
 
 
'''Turns out, one is Twiggy and Steve (a manager of some sort). They didn't really have a plan for the night, so we invited them to hang out with us since I was already on a tour of the town.
 
Twiggy is a great guy. He carried around a little figurine of a smurf and, when confronted by a bouncer, would just hand it to him or make it dance in his hands, much to the bewilderment of the bouncer.'''
 
 
'''We wound up drunk and eventually they ditched us. One of my favorite nights of my life.
 
Fast forward 2 weeks and I round the corner to my flight back to the US and there is Twiggy, Steve, and everyone else. I spot him and roll up, looking like a guy who was just backpacking through Europe, and throw out a very warm 'Hey Twiggy!!' He's very warm back and asking about my time and what I got into. I thought it was sweet that he remembered me, despite only sharing a few hours together.'''
 
 
'''While this was going down, you were sitting right next to me completely perplexed about how the hell this guy just rolled into the situation and knew Twiggy. You leaned into him and said "Who the fuck is this guy?" The same reaction the first time I saw a music video of yours.'''
 
 
'''Years later, I saw a picture of you, him, John Stewart, and Trent Reznor backstage (here) where he was way more into a toy C3P0 than anything else going on.'''
 
 
'''My question:'''
 
 
'''Does Twiggy always carry around toys?'''
 
 
I know that he collects toys, and it really depends on what you define as toys. He is a fan of science fiction, it started with STAR WARS, and that's actually one of the first ways that we became close back in Florida, because i'd stolen a bunch of STAR WARS toys and I sold them to him.
 
 
'''I'm a huge fan of your work... and your makeup! Mind sharing your go-to products?'''
 
 
Sure!
 
 
One thing I do when I do my makeup is I use my fingers a lot. And I can do my own makeup probably in less than 5 minutes, depending on what type of makeup I'm doing. I usually use a combination between M.A.C. and AquaColor and Makeup For Ever. And Christian Dior.
 
 
I usually use Christian Dior foundation, and AquaColor blue-whatever, and then when it comes to black, I like to use a mixture of different things.
 
 
But I like to try to use things that stay put, and I find that Makeup For Ever does a pretty solid job of that. So does M.A.C., for different things.
 
 
'''Would you ever release a full acoustic-only album, whether covers or new songs, even if just online releases? Your voice works beautifully alongside an acoustic guitar.'''
 
 
I've found a bunch of old recordings form when I was making "Holy Wood", I was rehearsing for the album, and I was doing a bunch of different covers and John Lennon songs and Elton John, just various Johnny Cash, and assorted things, the Doors also, things that I could use to just warm up my voice. And I think my voice was really raw at that time, because I think the physical stress I was putting on myself (and mentally) when I was making that record. But that is my favorite record, "Holy Wood," it's one of my favorite moments of music, and it does have a lot of moments. So yes, I think there will be some things dug out of the past when we get to that point. But I like doing things acoustically. I actually like to - I'm not afraid to sing in front of other people with a microphone, acoustically, which was something I was shy to do in the past. I would never want to have people in the studio, I would want to sit in the sound booth. But now I don't have a problem with it at all. In fact, I wouldn't mind performing live acoustically as well. I even crashed some innocent strangers' bachelorette party karaoke a few weeks ago! I don't know if they wanted a concert or not, but they got it.
 
  
 
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