We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.
I just saw metal as another tool for me to use.
What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.
I'm happy with the way everyone presents themselves onstage.
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.
We're approaching things quite differently this time, but it will still sound like Marilyn Manson.
We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.
I have about nine guitars in all, so obviously I'm into collecting.
It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.
Micing it from two different angles in front of the speaker sounds huge, and it's so simple.
I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates.
I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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.
Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
Each member of the band has varied influences, and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase.
We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years.
Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own.
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.
If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth.
It's great, because different groups of kids can laugh at each other and still enjoy the show.
