“I'm not anything like Brad Pitt or Antonio Banderas, but maybe it's the taboo element of my image, which is almost deathlike, that attracts them. I should be the last person that [people] should be attracted to.”

—  Marilyn Manson

As quoted in CMJ (January 1997).
1990s

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