Marilyn Manson‘s time portraying ‘Ron Tully‘—an imprisoned Aryan Brotherhood shot caller on TV’s ‘Sons Of Anarchy‘ with a penchant for prison sex—has led him to train how to defend himself should he ever be locked up again. Manson told Avclub.com of that during a larger conversation about Charlie Hebdo and freedom of expression:
“Well, I always like to go by the motto “freedom of speech does not come with a dental plan.”
I’m always very excited if someone says something very inappropriate, but I used to be a journalist and I never wrote about anything I didn’t like. And I know that I’m an easy target for anything. I have a target tattooed on me. But what I don’t like is the cowardice of the Internet, which is something that came about before—well technically after I was a journalist, but before I really became famous for making music. I found it really interesting that if you read things that are either bad or good, it relays a true sense of narcissism because, you know, it’s almost like being Santa Claus or Jesus or the Easter Bunny, but people hide behind the anonymity of the Internet and they can say and do what they want.
I remember having a message board early on in my career in my website, which I found amusing. One of the things I did was hire somebody who had an anti-Marilyn Manson website, and I tricked him into becoming my webmaster. And then I waited for him to try to get, you know, this self-indulgent, pseudo-celebrity feeling by being the webmaster of a website, feeling like he had some sort of importance, and then I just crushed him by blaming all the problems that went wrong on it on him. I infiltrated all of the people and sent their messages back to each other and then blocked them and whenever they’d respond I’d say, “I can’t respond.”
This became something I would do in post-Columbine times. It also was right before I started seeing SWAT teams in my yard and I had to go to a mental hospital very briefly, which was a little vacation. But it was fun for me to just turn things around on someone, because it can be devastating for a person, or a person that even knows me, or someone I’m in a relationship with, to be put in a position where you’re just completely under the microscope of everything.
I’m never going to complain about that. I just pack a fucking can of whoop-ass with me in my pocket at all times. And it’s simple. You tap the cobra, you’re gonna get the fangs. You kiss the cobra, you get the venom. That can be sexual, however you want to take that. But I don’t fuck around. When people mess with anything that I care about, then I get pissed off. And I’m not someone you want to piss off, because I’ve got friends that are in really low places. Not saying Hells Angels, not saying MS-13 gang, not saying any of those… but I’m not somebody you fuck with.I mean I have been arrested. I do have a lot of priors, that’s the problem. Not Richard Pryor, but prior arrests. And all of them are assault and battery. But I never did prison time, which is why I started fight training this year, because when I was doing Sons Of Anarchy I thought, “You know what? If I get arrested, I want to make sure I’m not on the receiving end of what my character does,” so I’ll make sure I’m tough. Because I will probably be a hot piece of ass in jail. I’m just saying. Because, you know, they might say, “I’m gonna make that guy my bitch.” So I want to make sure I’ve got my buttocks real strong, and my punching fist real strong, too. In the event that I get arrested, which I don’t plan on doing, because I like to commit crimes that are unnoticeable by the law.
That’s going to be used against me in a court of law. That’s going to be like cited as… “Mr. Warner, is it true that you said, in the serious version of The Onion, The A.V. Club, that you do criminal acts…” So thank you… Thank you for getting me ass-fucked. I appreciate that.”
Marilyn Manson released his new album “The Pale Emperor” earlier this week.
