"He's crazy! And crazy, by the way, is the highest compliment I pay." That's Evan Rachel Wood, 19, gushing to Elle UK (via People) about squicky squeeze Marilyn Manson, 38.

"Manson is definitely crazy," she reiterates of the man who has called her "my double, my twin." "Hopefully I am, too."

The wonky-eyed, pasty-faced rocker is also "lovely, really human and just amazing," enthuses Evan. "It may surprise you just how healthy and loving our relationship is."

According to the starlet, they got to know each other as "movie buddies" but didn't hook up until after Manson separated from not-quite-ex-wife Dita Von Teese in December (one night, "we just suddenly looked into one another's eyes and knew," she recalls).

They later bonded over the mutual interest in art, literature and political discourse -- just kidding -- she says it was actually their shared love of eye makeup.

"If you've ever dated me, then you would have ended up wearing eyeliner at some point," explains Evan. "All my boyfriends have."

But there's so much more to their relationship than just trading smudging techniques. They also like, totally, inspire one another (you know, beyond just getting it on -- in graphic, moan-y detail -- in Manson's video for "Heart-Shaped Glasses").

"You should see his house, omigod, it's a hurricane of creativity," chirps Wood. "And it's making me feel more creative than ever before. I'm writing poetry, songs, taking photographs, experimenting with fashion, everything."

And even though the actress has appeared to adopt the personal style of the elegant and vintage-loving Von Teese since pairing with Manson, she proclaims, "Everyone is so worried that I'm losing myself but really I'm finding myself. I've never been more comfortable in my own skin."

She adds that their May-'80s-Goth-era romance has made her realize "just how cruel people can be. I've seen blogs where I've been called a slut, a whore, that say I should be condemned to death simply because I've fallen in love. Surely the fact that we are both prepared to go through all this proves just how important -- and real -- our love is, no?"

Maybe not, at least according to Von Teese, who points out to the London Observer that part of Manson's aforementioned video with Wood was shot at a location with which she's all too familiar.

"I never took him for someone who would exploit our divorce for the sake of records. I don't think people realize he used our marriage bed in that music video to have sex with that girl," the martini-glass-writhing burlesque queen tells the paper. "And he wore his wedding ring. I just thought, 'Wow, this is kind of obsessive. I guess I still matter.' "

Manson, she sighs, "wanted to change me. The things people like about you in the beginning end up being the things they don't like."

Not so coincidentally, Manson leveled a similar charge against Dita.

"I was married to someone who wanted me to change," he grumbled in April, "become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity."

Next: Quickies: Ashes for Love & Kate? LiLo Burned?