NOVEMBER/NOVIEMBRE 2000
BBC RADIO 1, ROCK SHOW
A chimpanzee starring as Jesus Christ in his last video...
"The song and the album even in the greater picture deal with both revolution and evolution, so I compare Christ as a revolutionary and the first rock star, and there's been a battle between creationists and revolutionists....so I thought it would interesting to take a bunch of religious icons and people and combine them with evolution..."
His drink of choice...
"I've been drinking that evil Absinthe for a few years now. I've found you operate quite lucidly on it, but the next day you don't remember things. In some cases when making the record I found that very beneficial because I wanted to be very experimental and do things I normally wouldn't do..."
Recording in Harry Houdini's house...
"It's this really big big house, and we painted the entire interior of it black and hung a huge gigantic American flag on the ceiling for acoustical purposes. But it had quite an atmosphere to it..."
Religious References on the album...
"(The album) is very obsessed with trying to discover where man's behaviour really comes from...The story of how this record ties in with Anti-Christ Superstar...I had dreamed extraordinary visions of where I ended up today, I saw myself stuck facing a decision of whether or not I would be destroyed by what I would become, or if I would be destroyed or resurrected as something else..."
Guns, Government, Religion, Death, Rebellion and Punk...
"To me punk came to mind but not in the way it sounds. There's a lot of American bands, no disrespect to them, like Green Day and Blink 182 that claim punk as their sound but to me punk isn't so much what it sounds but what it means..."
The need to fight...
"So many people wanted to see me fail...out of shear revenge I had to come out fighting like this"
Other Projects...A movie?
"I'd rather have a record and a novel that I'm proud of than a movie that someone ruins..."
Other Projects...His books?
"I just think when you're not being self-conscious about telling your life story you tend to project more than your life story, more truths about your personality in characters you create, so I think all the characters in my book have little bits of me in them..."
