"This is me coming out swinging. Rather than being ******** in the a** [by his critics], I would kick their teeth in. But I want to do it in a beautiful way, so that they could still be humming a tune as they held their mouths on the way to the orthodontist." (Rolling Stone Interview, 07/26/00)
"The story...is my story, but I chose to tell it with metaphors. Holy Wood itself is a name and a metaphor I've created for the perfect world, or the ideal that everybody tries to hold up as what we all should be. The story is about spending your whole life trying to fit into that world that doesn't want you, and being knocked down over and over again, and just fighting and fighting until you finally get there. And when you get there, you realize that everyone around you are the same people that kept you down in the first place, so that causes some resentment, and in this case that resentment became a revolution. And with anyone who starts a revolution, there's always an idealism that you can change the world. Rather than changing Holy Wood or the rest of the world around me, that revolution turned inside-out and it ended up being another product, and it ended up being everything that I was fighting against. The only thing you can do at that point is destroy what you've become. That's a story that I saw beginning with AntiChrist Superstar, and it's a story that I ended up living, and that goes through Mechanical Animals and now back to the beginning with Holy Wood." (Webcast
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