It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.

I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates.

Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.

We're approaching things quite differently this time, but it will still sound like Marilyn Manson.

If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth.

It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.

I just saw metal as another tool for me to use.