We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.

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.

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

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

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

There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music.

Micing it from two different angles in front of the speaker sounds huge, and it's so simple.