Marilyn Manson: ‘It’s A Real Wonder That I’m Alive’
Rocker Marilyn Manson credits his upcoming album Eat Me, Drink Me for saving his life after his most messed up year. The hitmaker admits 2006 was a terrible 12 months for him, and he’s amazed he’s still alive after a string of events ended with his wife, burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese, filing divorce papers at Christmas.
Manson – real name Brian Warner – says, “As many dark places that I’ve gone in my life and in my music this past year… it’s a real wonder that I’m alive. I never wanted to make music again, but this was the only salvation I had going for me. Somehow I came out of that, and I came out of that writing a song, and that song turned into a record.”
The song that turned his fortunes and feelings around, Just A Car Crash Away, has stunned friends he’s played it to. He adds, “A couple (of) people I’ve played it for have cried… I just think it’s terribly romantic, in a Bram Stoker (Dracula author) sort of way.”
Yeah, Bram Stroker is on MY top 5 romantic movies.
March 26th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
I love that picture!
March 26th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
Who the hell cares about this weirdo? The world would be a better place without him! Society doesent need more freaks like him. Every time I see him, I get creeped out and wish I’d had not looked!
March 26th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
I hate him really much and would’ve shed no tears if he had Bought The Farm.
March 26th, 2007 at 2:12 pm
Yeah, “Kathy”, everyone should be the same. Just like you. What a wonderful world. Boring as hell. Get over it and go watch Live with Regis and Kelly.
There are a lot of different people in this world. And those people are interested in different things. So, some people probably do care about this “weirdo” because they don’t get their kicks listening to top 40 radio and watching American Idol.
March 26th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
Are people still named Kathy?
March 26th, 2007 at 2:29 pm
STOKER is an novelist.
March 26th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
Kathy is obviously some sort of nazi who feels scared by anything different. I hope she gets cancer.
March 26th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
You’re the freak, Kathy. Why is everyone afraid of those who are different? I suppose you’d prefer it if everyone were blond, blue-eyed and christian. Loser…
March 26th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
^^Kathy is a real winner… by winner, I mean utterly retarded.
I’m glad Manson is writing music and keeping his life under control.
March 26th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
Hey Kathy-
I’m sure you would love nothing more than to extinguish all the “freaks” and “weirdos”, but some of us are actually quite comfortable with said people coexisting with the “normals”. If it “creeps” you out so much, maybe you should just keep staring open-mouthed at your tv and listening to your undoubtedly large, bland pop radio music collection. Looking pretty in your Cover Girl compact? ‘Cause you’re looking a bit like a “weirdo” to me.
March 26th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
Kathy is probably the head of the PMRC.
March 26th, 2007 at 3:10 pm
Its more a wonder that he won’t just go away.
March 26th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
Ya know what I think is funny? All the people that ten years ago were listening to Anti-Christ Superstar and Portait Of An American Family are now raising families of their own and checking online to see if their neighborhoods have child predators or not. This dude is washed up. The whole white make-up, shaved eyebrows thing had it’s shock factor back in 1997….it’s boring now. He thinks he can give his music credibility now because he’s had a “tough year”. La-dee-frickin-daa you idiot! You sang songs about the benefits of child molestation! To you it was “art”…well guess what? I think it’s funny that you’re not getting the glam-rock street cred you think you deserve and soon you will stop receiving royalty checks and be forced to take a job working FOR Gary Coleman as mall security.
March 26th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
I think he is a weird individual. To me this Goth shit is something most kids outgrow. This guy is messed up…have you heard him talk about watching his grandfather put a “toy” up his rear end? Anyone who puts him on a pedestal is an immature poser. Don’t know what hottie Dita saw in this freak.
March 26th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
I’m with Kathy. The guy is a poser.
March 26th, 2007 at 4:08 pm
Eww did he really sing songs glorifying molesting kids? Look at the guy. I don’t expect everyone to be cut with the same cookie cutter, but this guy is a complete freak. The only way he can get publicity is by looking different. Wow…now that’s talent. Let me wear my Halloween Costume for 10 or so years and then name an album something Blasphemous to get noticed.
March 26th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
He might be a fine person, but he is just too old to be playing the ‘angst’ card anymore. By this point he should have read enough self-help books, been to a shrink, found whatever is his appropriate form spirituality and just generally have GROWN UP. There are guys younger than him dying in Iraq while he paints his old face and puts on a Micky Mouse hat and says, ‘poor me, I want to die. Now let me go drive my Ferrari’ If his depression is a result of child-hood sexual abuse then he should use his millions to raise awareness, open hotlines, petition to change laws so that molesters are prosecuted more effectively. Not just paint his face and make faces and perpetuate the problem with pervy songs. In abuse, a child is a victim. An adult, however, either fights the problem, or perpetuates it. He is an adult, and needs to act like it.
March 26th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
“Eww did he really sing songs glorifying molesting kids?”
No, he didn’t. Listen to the guy’s music before criticizing, people.
“He might be a fine person, but he is just too old to be playing the ‘angst’ card anymore.”
Huh? I’m 40 years old and the current state of the world gives me a whole lot of angst. We are at war after all (for those of us who are American anyways). And, actually, many of these responses give me angst as well – all these people judging someone based solely on his appearance. Let me guess – you’re all Christians, right?
“Not just paint his face and make faces and perpetuate the problem with pervy songs.”
Yeah, which songs? You people haven’t even listened to his music and yet you criticize. His “pervy” songs are a commentary on the state of “normal” America, where the real perversions occur. But you would actually have to pay attention to the lyrics to understand that.
March 26th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
Leave Kathy alone. She has the right to her own thoughts. You may not agree with her but that’s her business. He is strange in his own way and he puts himself out there for people like Kathy to be “creeped” out by him. If not for people like Kathy he would not be the weirdo he is today. I agree with Rockercub!!! Anyways didn’t the grunge punk physco thing go out of style like the end of the 90s. Oh and trying to be different on purpose is sad…really most of you people spend more time trying to “look” different than I do just trying to get ready for work.
March 26th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
Bram Stoker is an author. Fuck’s sake.
March 26th, 2007 at 7:32 pm
Thanks Rockercub.
I’m sick of people saying that he does and sings about stuff, based on rumour and urban legand.
While Manson has lost his mainstream appeal, he still has a massively loyal fanbase and his last album debuted at Number One all around the world.
I’d rather my kids listen to Manson than Idol and the like.
I want my kids listening to someone intelligent who ROCKS.
Manson is a better role model than the mediocraty and banality one finds on Top40 radio.
March 26th, 2007 at 7:49 pm
I have laughed out loud reading these comments. I have to agree with Friedman-Klein for once…love the picture. It’s classic. And if you don’t get it, then there’s no way we can explain it to you. Marilyn actually said one of the best things I’ve ever heard. Michael Moore asked him what he would say to those who died at Columbine if he could, and he said, “I wouldn’t say anything. I would listen. And that’s what no one did.” Now that’s powerful.
March 26th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
I am glad he survives but too bad his career isn’t. I guess MM is impressive and creative if you never listened Alice Cooper, David Bowie, or Trent Reznor, but his music, lyrics, and antics pale in comparison. Times have changed. Almost everything he sang about has come and gone. His schtick works when things are good–malcontents during prosperity–but fails when times are bad. Pointing out hypocrisy in this day and age is like saying the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. It is utterly obvious.
March 26th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
“Times have changed. Almost everything he sang about has come and gone. His schtick works when things are good–malcontents during prosperity–but fails when times are bad. Pointing out hypocrisy in this day and age is like saying the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. It is utterly obvious.”
You contradict yourself. How can the things he sings about have come and gone, yet be currently obvious?
“I guess MM is impressive and creative if you never listened Alice Cooper, David Bowie, or Trent Reznor, but his music, lyrics, and antics pale in comparison.”
I’m not familiar with Alice Cooper, but “School’s Out” certainly doesn’t seem too intelligent or impressive. Bowie and Reznor are like the da Vinci and Michaelangelo of modern music. ALL other modern music pales in comparison. That doesn’t mean said music isn’t great and/or relevant.
March 26th, 2007 at 10:22 pm
Whiney whine whine whine..? He is so NOT desperate and fearful. Try starving, being raped, being tortured and sold as a slave mr scary guy and I might have a ounce of pity for your owie!!
March 27th, 2007 at 5:35 am
Jesus MM and anyone who listens to him are boring. I guess I could sit in my room, jamming to this record, and be depressed, as well, but I’m too busy working to pay my rent.
March 27th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
rockercub says:
You contradict yourself. How can the things he sings about have come and gone, yet be currently obvious?
His new music is repeating the same themes and musical ideas. Ten years ago, his ideas were sufficient to merited listening to his music. Today, his ideas are dated and quite frankly boring. Live, he is much more interesting until he starts mimicking the genitorturers then it is shows over and off to jail.
If you like MM go listen to Alice Cooper and you will see a strong influence. When you say it doesn’t seem particularly intelligent or impressive, that is much the way most people react to MM.
Hey, if you like/love MM there is nothing wrong with that.
April 2nd, 2007 at 5:38 pm
awwwww u lot need 2 chillax. marilyn manson is fucking amazing!!!!!
so he may be a bit wierd n a bit of a perve- so what?! sayin all this shit jus gives him satisfaction neway. my name is kody and im 14 and i LOVE mr manson!! all of the rest of u can crall into holes and die!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 30th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
I seriously feel bad for those of you who have nothing to say about the man besides hes “zomfg fucking amazing.”
pathetic.
however, thanks to those who understand and accept it.
glad to see some fellow intelligent beings.
March 30th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
screw this guy.being different….im unique just like everyone else!!!u can be diff but not creepy!!!hes just depressed and fucked up!!!!
and if we were all christians we would see a better day!!!!and fuck every1 who wants to post against me!!!!screw u too!!