It's like this - these five members have been influenced of course by other groups, because that's where this generation's groups came from - an environment like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, and The Who. People like that.

Just because I cut the heads off dolls doesn't mean I hate babies, I just hate dolls.

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

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

Everybody was at the top of their game at that point, in the early '70s.

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.

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.