When I was a kid I really didn't have my own opinions and then sort of transformed into this angel which is really Marilyn Manson and then the final stage is Antichrist Superstar which is the more nihilistic, totalitarian element in everybody's personality, that, is a real struggle on the album and in my life, between that power.
Marilyn MansonAnd that's the type of thing I'm trying to speak out against the most, religion controlling what we see and what we do in our personal lives, even if you're not a part of that religion. Antichrist Superstar[the album] is a challenge really, to traditional morality and it's...to make people question that and make people think about different perspectives.
Marilyn MansonIf people really stopped and realized how much art and creative people move the world versus politics and religion, I mean itโs not even up for debate. An artist at least creates things, puts things into the world. Where as these other people are destroying things, taking things out of the world.
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