Nowhere was the attraction greater than in Genesis' apparent obsession with psychopathic murderers. Ironically Genesis' interest in people like Ian Brady, Myra Hindley, Charles Manson and the Marquis de Sade was not fuelled by a desire to be outrageous or to make psychopaths this year's chic thing. His bookshelves, and the incidents used as subject matter for TG lyrics, bear witness to this interest in the macabre. I spliced that image in with the Sharon Tate killing when they actually stabbed her and one of the girls, Sadie, talked about wanting to cut the baby out because it was still alive inside Sharon Tate. It seems to be an inevitable result of that kind of physical power over somebody.
Men seem to always be tempted into rape and castration.
It's a kind of eternal behavioural trait of man which I find objectionable but I don't believe in being an ostrich. I believe it's much more useful to turn around and look at it closely, even if you can't figure it out, and say, 'This puzzles me. There is no sense of relish when Genesis discusses incidents hike this. His interest seems almost academic and the conclusions he draws from such information show a concern to come to grips with the darker side of the human psyche. In this context his observations about Charles Manson are particularly illuminating.