It takes a certain kind of woman to crack the mystery wrapped in a riddle inside the deathly pale, makeup-slathered enigma of Marilyn Manson, but Evan Rachel Wood has apparently done it.

"I've found my double, my twin, with my new girlfriend, Evan Rachel Wood," the wonky-eyed rocker, 38, affirms to France's Le Parisien newspaper (via People). "She's 19 and certainly that's very young, but that's not a problem for me. She likes the same things as me. She understands I like to get up when night falls and go to sleep at dawn."

Word is Manson's squicky relationship with his teenage soul mate, whom he reportedly met when he cast her in his horror film, "Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll," contributed to the demise of his year-old marriage to Dita Von Teese, 34.

"Our relationship ended at Halloween," he tells the paper of his burlesque beauty ex, who filed for divorce in December. "I was completely destroyed psychologically. I'd rented a house and begun working on this [CD], which sort of tells everything that happened to me during the past year."

Of particular interest will be the ditty "Heart-Shaped Glasses," which Manson told reporters at a recent press conference he wrote after he just happened to pick up a copy of the older man-meets-nubile-nymphet novel "Lolita."

Further getting his creative juices flowing: Wood paid him a visit wearing the titular eyewear, made famous in Stanley Kubrick's 1962 adaptation of Nabokov's English 101 staple.

Recalls Manson, "And when I saw her wearing those glasses I had to write a song about it, and that's the way I wrote most of the record."

Von Teese, he kvetches to the paper, "wanted me to change. ... Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me. The record allowed me to put an end to that."

It's a good bet Manson won't have to worry about being forced to join the land of grown-ups with Wood, who sorta seems less like his "double" and more like Dita's: In recent months, she's co-opted the bombshell's trademark vintage-style duds and dramatic makeup.

So what else does Manson admire about his dewy squeeze, besides her evidently deep-seated daddy issues, similarly topsy-turvy sleep patterns and acceptance of his immaturity.

"I respect her as an actress," he told reporters, before ookily adding, "And someone who I'd want to fornicate with."

Klassy.

Dita, for her part, tells People of her former flame, "We aren't friends -- but don't hate each other."

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