Alice Cooper.

I Would Say 50 per Cent of the Things You Hear About Alice Cooper Is Urban Legend. the Same Thing with Michael Jackson and Marilyn Manson. It’s All Partly Legend. but Everything You’ve Heard About Keith Moon Is True – and You’ve Only Heard 10 per Cent of It! Every Day Was an Event with Keith.

I Like Horror Movies That Are Over-the-top Gory, That’s the Essence of What I Do. I Like Setting an Audience Up, Giving Them a Good Scare and a Good Laugh, but It’s All Based Around the Songs. Without the 14 Top 40 Hits, There’d Be No Cake to Put the Icing On.

Everyone Likes to Be Scared a Little Bit.

I Loved the Beatles Because They Wrote Such Simple Songs, Which Is a Really Tough Thing to Do.

I’ve Always Thought If You Can Break the Girl’s Heart by the Second Verse, It’s a Hit.

After I Started Having Hits I Saw Lots of Bands Who’d Been Alice Cooper-ised; KISS Came Out After Us, Even David Bowie Before Alice Cooper Was a Mime and a Folk Singer. Then, When We Broke Down the Barriers, We Said You Could Do Music and Theatrics at the Same Time, Which Opened the Door for Acts Like Marilyn Manson and Slipknot.

We Don’t Use Any Animals in the Shows Now. Snakes Catch Pneumonia Very Easily. They Become Ill If You Take Them from a Hot Climate to a Cold Climate. I Didn’t Want to Put Them Through That Any More. as Long as a 15Ft Boa Constrictor Has Been Fed, They’re Like a Kitten.

Put My Head in a Guillotine, Fine, but Put a Needle near Me and I’m Passed Out on the Floor.

Jesus Spent Half His Time Dealing with Demons and Throwing Them Out of People. I Don’t Think You Just Float Around When You Die – There’s Judgment, You Either Go to Heaven or Hell.

I Listen to Those Albums and I Go, What the Hell Was I Thinking Then? It Was a Whole Different Time. There Are Three Albums I Don’t Remember Doing. I Don’t Remember Doing Dada. I Don’t Remember Special Forces, or Zipper Catches Skin. Those Were Three Albums During My Blackout Period, and I Listen Back to Them and I Go, Ha… There’s Some Pretty Cool Stuff on There!.

The Funny Thing Was That the Last Temptation Really Wasn’t Part of the Trilogy. That Was on Its Own. That Was the First Thing I Wrote as a Christian. and Then, It Was Six Years Before I Wrote Brutal Planet. Brutal Planet Was a Whole Different Story. Brutal Planet Was a Story That Was Talking About, What’s the World Like? Let’s Get a Picture of the Future 50 Years from Now, When All of the Systems Have Failed, Church, Family, School, Politics, Every System Has Failed, and There’s No God. Let’s Say That No One Believes in God. Well, What Have We Got? Now We’ve Got Brutal Planet This Horrible Place That Nobody Wants to Be. That’s What That Album Was About.

You Can’t Out-shock CNN.

In the Early Days of Pink Floyd, They at One Point Had Run Out of Funds While Touring in the L.A., so They Stayed Over at My Place. One Morning I Get up and Go Downstairs to the Kitchen, and There’s Syd Barret at the Breakfast Table. He Was Wearing Crushed Purple Velvet Trousers and Was Staring at a Box of Corn Flakes the Same Way You and I Would Watch Television. He Was Looking at Something We Couldn’t See.