 Drinking bear is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's rebellion. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| It's Frank's painting on the cover. We were originally going to use a Salvador Dali painting that we got permission from Salvador Dali to use, and Frank found this one, and it really did fit the music much more. |
| 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. |
| All I really wanted to do was make an album that was going to be just back to what I like to do... And it was a coincidence that these new bands, this new wave of bands, were doing Alice and Iggy rock. |
| We play it differently now. If we did the album now it would be different. |
| You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city with horns blowing, the people yelling things at each other, and the all-in-all violence and chaos of the city. Put that on stage with music, and that's what this is. |
| The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades. |
| That's like making fun of a maniac because his brain isn't completely right, because he isn't in the norm. |
| We started combining the use of light and the use of theatrics and the use of as many art forms as possible, and it's still growing - that's the whole idea of it. |
| I think he was trying to produce more of a... sort of a cheaper image. |
| We can only take it so far, because man can only take it so far, lower self can only take it so far, and you have to realize that the public is only at a certain place. |
| People that haven't seen us yet are shocked because they think that Alice Cooper must be a female folksinger. They don't expect the whole thing. |
| 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. |
| Well, we were all in high school and we got together, and in college - we were in art college together. |
| Yet I was Marilyn Manson - times 10. |
| They pick all of us out, and then they decide, they computerize, decide if they like it or don't like it, and then they go home, and then they come back again because they're not sure what they saw. |
| 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. |
