Happy Birthday: Marilyn Manson

Marilyn Manson

Born: January 5, 1969 in Canton, Ohio, USA

I’ve always watched pop-culture shows, and I found out when I thought about this, Marilyn Monroe and Charles Manson were the two most memorable people from the sixties, and I found it interesting that things like pop-culture shows put them on the same kind of celebrity status, and I thought that dichotomy of positive and negative, putting those two names together, represented what I had to say and what I was about. (On where the name, Marilyn Manson, came from.)

[on a period where his career faltered] I felt I wasn’t able to live up to what I am supposed to be. I lost interest. That was the problem. The edge comes with the desire. I’m like a knife. You’re either a butcher knife or a butter knife. It takes longer to cut off your dick with a butter knife…