"I found myself fascinated with the... sexually-depraved artistic chaos that bled from some of history's greatest minds as Berlin reached its creative extreme peak. (The Golden Age Of Grotesque will be) reckless electronic-punk vaudeville mixed with ’30s Cabaret decadence." 
—Marilyn Manson, 2002

"The power of our show is just the whole idea of bringing back Cabaret. We are really doing a Seventies stage thing on decadence. The cabaret was a period in German history when they were interested in decadence. That's exactly what we're doing. Only we're doing it with rock music instead of old beer-drinking music. And that's not too far away either; we do beer-drinking music, too. The whole idea behind the Billion Dollar Babies album was exploiting the idea that people do have sick perversions." 
—Alice Cooper, 1973