Quotes By Alice Cooper

I'm very romantic, I'm extremely romantic. I date my wife.

On stage, I'm this figure, this actor, who does things that people aren't used to seeing and I relish in that reaction. In real life, though, I play golf, I shop and I walk around with no makeup on and my hair in a ponytail. I may not be the typical middle-aged Joe, but I'm closer to normal than you think.

I think he was trying to produce more of a... sort of a cheaper image.

I'm not crazy about country-western music. But the lyrics are good.

The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.

Yet I was Marilyn Manson - times 10.

We play it differently now. If we did the album now it would be different.

It's a big flash of all these things and whatever you take out of that statement's one statement, one mind, one statement, one act, one show, and all the songs are one.

That was very close to getting killed. Usually at pop festivals we have people jumping on stage.

I have never made fun of religion. Religion is something I don't even want to mess with, because I am really afraid of the clouds opening up and my being struck by lightning.

Oh, I love to lie. That's one of my favorite things in the world, coming up to somebody, especially press people, and telling them some enormous lie that couldn't possibly be true.

Why be boring? Have some fun. Rock shows should be like movies: I don't go to a movie hoping it'll change my life.

The late sixties and early seventies were kind of a breeding ground for exciting new sounds because easy listening and folk were kind of taking over the airwaves. I think it was a natural next step to take that blissful, easy-going sound and strangle the life out of it.

Well, we were all in high school and we got together, and in college - we were in art college together.

He (Marilyn Manson) has a woman's name and wears makeup. How original.

We like reactions - a reaction is walking out on us, a reaction is throwing tomatoes at the stage, that's a healthy psychological reaction.

When you believe in God, you've got to believe in the all-powerful God. He's not just God, He's the all-powerful God and He has total control over everyone's life. The Devil, on the other hand, is a real character that's trying his hardest to tear your life apart.

City people live the city. We live in L.A., New York, we live in places where it's chaotic and you never know what's gonna happen. And that's the music - you never know what's gonna happen.

They should invent some way to tape-record your dreams. I've written songs in my dreams that were Beatles songs. Then I'd wake up and they'd be gone.