“Mechanical Animals is the way I describe mankind and the path it’s following. That people look and act like human beings, but inside, we’re losing our souls, that we numb ourselves with drugs, we numb ourselves with television. we numb ourselves with the Internet, with prescription drugs, with whatever we can find, because everyone’s afraid to be an individual. And Mechanical Animals is the fear that I have for the world.”

— Marilyn Manson