Alice Cooper Quotes

If you could use your brain like you use your ass.

Johnny [Depp] got this rock 'n' roll old soul to him. If I say a song, he goes, 'Oh yeah. I know that song.' A song he shouldn't know, a song that's not his generation at all. So he might as well have been there.

When I moved to L. A. with this little wimpy garage band, the first people we met were the Doors. Then we met Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin. All of the people who died of excess were our big brothers and sisters. So I said to myself: How do you become a legend and enjoy it? The answer is to create a character as legendary as those guys and leave that character on the stage.

Freedom to rock, freedom to talk. Freedom, raise your fist and yell.

The minute you step onstage, you get eight feet taller.

She didn't know that there was more of me, she'd have to learn to love all four of me.

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.

She's cool in bed, as she ought to be, cuz Ethyl's dead.

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

I'm your top prime cut of meat, I'm your choice, I wanna be elected.

Never be late. When you're late, what you're saying is that your time is more important than the other person's time. That's pretty egotistical.

The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.

We try to be as much involved in our product as possible, because then it's us.

If I spray it on the seat, lady gonna tie a big knot in the meat.

When I was a kid and my parents started talking about politics, I'd run to my room and put on the Rolling Stones as loud as I could. So when I see all these rock stars up there talking politics, it makes me sick... If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal.

Why don't you pass the gun around and give everyone a shot.

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.

My ultimate goal will be my being told in a Penthouse letter that I can frame.

No more Mr. Nice Guy.

It just seemed that we always ended up at the Rainbow, to the point where they finally just said, why don't you guys go up into this loft where we'll kind of protect people from coming around and, you know, sitting on the tables. And we thought that was a great idea.

There was a period of time when I thought I had to be Alice Cooper all the time.

Women on the streets want money when we meet. I take them for a little ride, chop, chop, chop.

Chained in a cell, got my own private hell. Preacher crucifies me, warden wants to fry me.

You were out on tour, 75 cities in 80 days, and then making records on top of it. And they started calling us the Hollywood Vampires 'cause anybody only saw us at night.

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.

If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play.

I don't think you can shock an audience anymore. Me cutting my head off is a great illusion, but when you turn on CNN and there's a guy really getting his head cut off, it does dilute what I did.

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

Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.

God gives you a life and says, 'Okay, what are you going to do with it?'

From the moment I leave my house or my hotel room, the public owns me. The public made Alice Cooper and I can't imagine ever turning my back on my fans.

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

Don't always know what I am talking about, feels like I'm living in the middle of doubt.

She gets a hundred for her body and a nickel for her soul.

When we get together and rehearse, which is always living with each other, we always talk about what would make it better, what would mean more, what would say more. So we're always improving and growing.

Please clean your plate dear, the Lord above can see ya. Don't you know people are starving in Korea.

I just want your body, Sheeba, I don't want your brains.

I'm hidden in the scream when the virgin dies, I'm the ache in the belly when your baby cries, and I'm the burning sensation when the convict fries.

What most people don't understand is that UFOs are on a cosmic tourist route. That's why they're always seen in Arizona, Scotland, and New Mexico. Another thing to consider is that all three of those destinations are good places to play golf. So there's possibly some connection between aliens and golf.

I wanna be in the headlines, anything to be in the headlines.

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.

I mean, I could go ahead and cut my head off in the guillotine, and it looks great, ... Well, now you turn on CNN and guys are really getting their heads cut off. ... As insane as our fantasy world gets, it's nowhere near as scary as reality.

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.

Besides, when I read the list of people who are supporting Kerry, if I wasn't already a Bush supporter, I would have immediately switched. Linda Ronstadt? Don Henley? Geez, that's a good reason right there to vote for Bush.

Slade was the coolest band in England. They were the kind of guys that would push your car out of a ditch.

All sliced up and sealed tight in baggies. Guess love makes you do funny things.

So what this is is us, our personalities refined down on to a stage performance. In other words, the way we play is the end product of the way we live - we live in the cities, you see.

I was one thing at one time, and I'm something new. I'm a new creature now. Don't judge Alice by what he used to be. Praise God for what I am now.