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Today I picked up two quotes for you where Brian shares his opinion on a scandalously famous American musician 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒍𝒚𝒏 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒐𝒏.
The first one is taken from Placebo’s 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 on 𝐌𝐓𝐕 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟏 and especially interesting for Brian’s thoughts on gun rights in the United States.

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𝑰’𝒗𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒍𝒚𝒏 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒕… 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒊𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒏?
📢𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: I never ever insulted Marilyn Manson! It’s impossible to insult Marilyn Manson… We’re friends and we like to hang out together. We both have a great ‘dirty’ sense of humour and we can mock each other just for fun.

𝑪𝒂𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒂𝒚 𝒉𝒆’𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒍𝒔, 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖?
📢𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: I think that he’s an exceptional personality and a very professional musician. He put a fist up the butt of American conservatism, and that’s very very good. He used to speak about the religious dogmas, human rights, freedom, government, church, as well as the National Rifle Association that advocates legalization and proliferation of guns in America. He throws light on some very important subjects in his music. Just let me give you an example. Let’s remember the gun shooting at the American school where some teens shot a bunch of students. And they immediately blamed Marilyn Manson and his music for that! I can remember the guys in suits saying on TV ‘Marilyn Manson’s music is the only reason of what’s happened!’. And the next day I could hear ‘We have to fight for the right to keep and bear guns!’ So who should take a responsibility for what’s happened at that school: Marilyn Manson or those who don’t want to restrict free gun sales in America?! It’s just a hypocrisy.
(𝐹𝑎𝑣𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝐶𝑙𝑖𝑝𝑠, 𝑀𝑇𝑉 𝑅𝑢𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑎, 2001)

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Another 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 that mentions Brian’s memories of the time they’ve been hanging out with Marilyn Manson, was published in 𝐍𝐌𝐄 𝐢𝐧 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟕.
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Placebo frontman Brian Molko has revealed that his past days of debauchery with Marilyn Manson saw them ‘very badly behaved’, and that he could ‘drink him under the table’.
Molko and the ‘God Of Fuck’ became friends in the ’90s when they both enjoyed a rapid rise to fame. While being ‘clean and happy’ these days and practising meditation, Molko’s past was a little more rowdy.
“I remember reading ‘The Long Road Out Of Hell’ [Marilyn Manson’s autobiography], and thinking ‘this book makes you feel like you want to go out and do very rock n’ roll things’, but that wasn’t a particular inspiration for my lifestyle,” Molko told Kerrang. “Marilyn Manson and I started hanging out at that time, and we were very badly behaved anyway.”
He continued: “I never saw him engaged in any depraved behaviour. Nothing I would consider depraved. And the thing about Manson is that he’s fiercely intelligent and a fantastic provocateur. I think that’s why we got on so well. And I have to say this – and he won’t like it – but I could always drink him under the table.”
(𝑁𝑀𝐸, 18𝑡ℎ 𝑂𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑟 2017)

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