MM: "This one is a few years old. It's an
Easter painting, a holiday item. She has six fingers, which I also
had on the cover of Mechanical Animals. It's a reference to Seraphim,
a religious reference. Angels were said to have six fingers on one
hand."
When I Get Old
MM: "I have a photo of William Burroughs hanging
in my hallway that looks a bit like that. I looked at it one day and
thought, 'If I could do all the things that he did and still look
like that when I get old, I'd be real happy.' So when I was painting
it, I was drinking absinthe, which I often do, and I dipped a brush
in the wrong bowl, in my drink, and that's when I discovered what
a great stain absinthe makes on the paper."
Lily White
MM: "This is something I did the day I got
my kitten. If you've been on my web site, you know she is quite famous.
She couldn't be here tonight. She's a real bitch. I love her, actually.
She's got more tits than my girlfriend. I can't say they're better,
there's just more of them."
Lily White - a screen capture from a little film Manson made of her.
Owner and pet together. Looks like she's ready to scoot off somewhere.
Every day it hurts to wake up
MM: "This is how I feel sometimes in the
morning. Even though it has a slightly cartoon-esque element to it,
this is the best way for me to get a lot of my pain out when I'm depressed.
Music often works for that, but when it's just me in silence with
the brush and the paper and the friction and what happens between
that, it does a lot for me."
Faunadestia
MM: " Every artist has to do Mickey [Mouse]
as a rite of passage. This is my interpretation. The title refers
to the phobia of animals scratching their genitals. I think Andy Warhol
did say America suffers from a rodent fetish. I enjoyed that."
Harlequin Jack and the Absinthe Bunny
MM: "This is a rather recent one. When I drink
sometimes, the rabbit pulls me out of the hat. This was actually stained
with absinthe. I was drinking as I was painting and put my brush in
the wrong one. It makes a nice stain, so I figured I didn't want to
waste it."
Grey Daisy
MM: "Someone said, 'Why don't you ever paint
something nice, like a flower?' So I painted one, but I ended up using
only the dirty water from another painting. If I wasn't me, I would
probably want this one."
Crop Failure
MM: "This appeared in Rolling Stone with my
essay about Columbine and is sort of a caricature of [Eric] Harris
and [Dylan] Klebold taken from their high school photographs. I was
making a statement about America, and it was definitely part of my
reaction for being blamed for something like Columbine. I thought
the title 'Crop Failure' was appropriate for several reasons. Columbine,
some people might know, is a flower. And, obviously, ['Crop' represents]
raising up your children and harvesting them properly. Something did
go wrong here, and I think the farmers should be blamed, not the entertainers."
Elizabeth Short as Snow White (A smile II)"
MM: "[(A smile II)] is how she left, in a
sad way, very famous. Technically, but who's to say what is technical
and what's not, I think this is one of my best pieces. So I hope no
one buys it, 'cause I really don't want to lose it."
Annojo.nl
MM: "Op Annojo vind je verschillende teksten
over uiteenlopende onderwerpen, zoals: - Waarom vrouwen meer tijd
nodig hebben om zich aan te kleden - Een verhaal over hoe ik gestopt
ben met roken - Of mannen liegen en of dat erg is - Grappige misverstanden
- Verhalen" Kortom hele vette verhalen en gedachte spinsels van
de stoerste schrijfster van nederland.
