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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.

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I Always Think That You Should Be Striving To Write Your Best Song.

You Can't Get The Visual Thing On The Record As Much As You'd Like To. We Produced This Album, And We'd Never Done That Before, Except When We Produced Singles For Ourselves.

Freedom To Rock, Freedom To Talk. Freedom, Raise Your Fist And Yell.

It's So Funny That People Think I Actually Ran For President. I Am Maybe The Most Un-political Person You're Ever Going To Meet. When I Put "elected" Out, It Was Definitely A Satire... "alice Cooper For President"... When Everybody Realized I Was Running Against Nixon, You Known, Even On A Joke Level, I Think I Got A Lot Of Write-in Votes.

She Didn't Know That There Was More Of Me, She'd Have To Learn To Love All Four Of Me.

I'm Eighteen And I Like It.

She Wears High Tech Devo Suit, She Changed Her Name To Xerox, She Hides Quaaludes In Her Boots.

I Read Dad's Books Like I Did Before, Now Things Are Crystal Clear. Lock The Door In The Bathroom, Now I Just Can't Get Caught In Here.

Some Maniac Butcher Is Trying To Hack Away Your Balls.

You Ain't No Hepburn And I Ain't No Fonda, But If You Were Drowning In Golden Ponda, Mouth To Mouth I'd Resuscitate You.

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.

I Hear You Calling And It's Needles And Pins (and Pins) I Want To Hurt You Just To Hear You Screaming My Name Don't Want To Touch You But You're Under My Skin (deep In) I Want To Kiss You But Your Lips Are Venomous Poison

Slade Was The Coolest Band In England. They Were The Kind Of Guys That Would Push Your Car Out Of A Ditch.

Throughout My Life, There Are Four People I've Met Who Were Truly Original People. The Other Three Were Groucho Marx, Jim Morrison And Pablo Picasso.

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.

I'm Not Crazy About Country-western Music. But The Lyrics Are Good. "i'd Rather Have A Bottle In Front Of Me Than A Frontal Lobotomy" Is Pretty Clever.

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 Ain't No Veggie, Like My Flesh To The Bone, Alive And Licking On Your Ice Cream Cone.

I'm Your Top Prime Cut Of Meat, I'm Your Choice, I Wanna Be Elected.

The Boy's Got Problems, The Boy's Got Stress, The Boy's Got A .38 Hidden In His Desk.

Johnny Depp Already Seen How Alcohol And Drugs Can Get In The Way Of A Career. And You Have To Remember One Thing: Johnny Was A Guitar Player And A Rock-and-roller Way Before He Was An Actor. When He Came To Los Angeles, He Came With His Band.

Welcome To My Nightmare, I Think Your Going To Like It.

I Haven't Had An Alcoholic Drink In 22 Years, But When I Did Drink I'd Go For Either Canadian Whisky Or Budweiser. Sometimes Both. For A Long Time I Used To Think "hey You, Get Off The Floor!" Was My Name.

If You Get Earaches, I'd Turn My Volume Down A Notch Or Two For You. Cause I Will Do Anything For You.

Dead Babies Can Take Care Of Themselves, Dead Babies Can´t Take Things Off The Shelf.

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.

The Minute You Step Onstage, You Get Eight Feet Taller.

We Wanted It More Live And Raw. We Didn't Want A Studio Sound.

I Ain't Got A Job Cause I Ain't Got A Car, So I'm Looking For A Girl With A Job And A Car.

My Ultimate Goal Will Be My Being Told In A Penthouse Letter That I Can Frame.

Nurse Rozetta, I Won't Let Her Catch Me Peering Down Her Sweeter.

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.

I'll Take You To The Deepest, Darkest, Hottest Lover's Lane For A Little Spark In The Dark.

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.

Love's A Loaded Gun And It Shoots To Kill.

There Was A Period Of Time When I Thought I Had To Be Alice Cooper All The Time.

I Just Want Your Body, Sheeba, I Don't Want Your Brains.

Rock Should Never Be In Bed With Politics.

It Used To Be Said: As Gm Goes, So Goes America. Now It's: As Starbucks Goes, So Goes America.

Yet I Was Marilyn Manson - Times 10.

Don't Always Know What I Am Talking About, Feels Like I'm Living In The Middle Of Doubt.

Drinking Beer Is Easy. Trashing Your Hotel Room Is Easy. But Being A Christian, That's A Tough Call. That's Rebellion.

He Lies Right At You, You Know You Hate This Game. He Slaps You Once In A While And You Live And Love In Pain.

That Was Very Close To Getting Killed. Usually At Pop Festivals We Have People Jumping On Stage.

The Best Things In Life Don't Make Sense

Best Things In Life

We Play It Differently Now. If We Did The Album Now It Would Be Different.

I'm Very Romantic, I'm Extremely Romantic. I Date My Wife.

I Don't Know, But I've Been Told, The Streets Of Hell Are Paved With Gold.

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.

If You Were To Say To Me That You Needed A Romantic And Sentimental Song In Four Hours, I Would Have That Song Written In Four Hours.

If You Blink Your Eyes Or Go Get A Coke, You've Missed 10 Things.

God Gives You A Life And Says, 'okay, What Are You Going To Do With It?'

I'm Eighteen, And I Don't Know What I Want.

She's Cool In Bed, As She Ought To Be, Cuz Ethyl's Dead.

How Old Are You? Sixteen? S-seventeen? [asks Security Guard] Is Seventeen Legal?

Security Guards

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, Easygoing Sound And Strangle The Life Out Of It.

Satan Sent Her From The Bowels Of Hell, I Should Have Recognized Old Jezebel.

I Can't Go To School, Cause I Don't Have A Gun. I Ain't Got A Gun, Cause I Ain't Got A Job. I Ain't Got A Job, Cause I Can't Go To School.

Every Rock'n'roll Band I Know, Guys With Long Hair And Tattoos, Plays Golf Now.

Two Of The Guys That Were Honorary Vampires - Jim Morrison And Jimi Hendrix - Had Already Died At 27. And They Were Certainly Archangels In Our Group.

I Appreciate An Audience That Reacts To The Music, Even If They Jump On Stage And Try To Beat Us Up, I Think That's A Fantastic Reaction. I Think That They're Really Hearing Something Then.

Please Clean Your Plate Dear, The Lord Above Can See Ya. Don't You Know People Are Starving In Korea.

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.

We Like Reactions - A Reaction Is Walking Out On Us, A Reaction Is Throwing Tomatoes At The Stage, That's A Healthy Psychological Reaction.

He Thinks About His Teacher In His Literary Class, He's Staring At Her Legs.

Old Enough To Be Drafted But Not Old Enough To Vote.

We Try To Be As Much Involved In Our Product As Possible, Because Then It's Us.

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.

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.

The Hippies Wanted Peace And Love. We Wanted Ferraris, Blondes And Switchblades.

Do You Feel Your Best When Your Strung Out On Your Morphine And Meth?

No More Mr. Nice Guy.

I'm Not Crazy About Country-western Music. But The Lyrics Are Good.

I Wanna Be In The Headlines, Anything To Be In The Headlines.

They're Reacting And That's Wonderful. It's Better Than Them Sitting There Doing Nothing. I Say Make Them React - Do Whatever's In Your Power To Move The Audience, And If That's Where It Is, And There Where It Is With America, Sex And Violence, Then I Say Project It.

Give Me Lace And Whiskey, Mama's Own Remedy.

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.

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.

The Two Most Joyous Times Of The Year Are Christmas Morning And The End Of School.

They Say That Golf Isn't A Contact Sport. Not The Way That We Play It

If I Spray It On The Seat, Lady Gonna Tie A Big Knot In The Meat.

The Only Real Person You Need To Know Is You.

We Just Set It Up And Recorded It The Way We Played It. But That Was The Way We Played It Then.

I Always Tell People, 'everything You’ve Heard About Alice Cooper , You Can Believe Maybe 40 Percent Of It. Everything You’ve Ever Heard About Keith Moon Is True - And You’ve Only Heard 10 Percent Of It.'

It's A Compliment To Me To Hear You Screaming.

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.

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.

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.

Just Because I Cut The Heads Off Dolls Doesn't Mean I Hate Babies, I Just Hate Dolls.

If Somebody Had Told Me That You Have A Choice Of Being A Rock Star Or Playing Left Field For The Tigers, There Would Not Have Been A Choice At All. I Would Have Said, 'where's My Locker?'

School's-out-for-summer!!

Is Everybody That Depressed? It's A Depressing Feeling To Me. You Know: "i Lost My Baby." I Don't Care If You Lost Your Baby, I Care If You're Feeling Ok. Don't Tell Me Your Problem - Tell Me What Good's Been Happening To You.

All Sliced Up And Sealed Tight In Baggies. Guess Love Makes You Do Funny Things.

It Doesn't Matter How Many Drugs I Take, I'm Not Fulfilled. This Isn't Satisfying. There's A Spiritual Hunger Going On. Everybody Feels It. If You Don't Feel It Now, You Will. Trust Me. You Will... Drinking Beer Is Easy. Trashing Your Hotel Room Is Easy. But Being A Christian, That's A Tough Call. That's The Real Rebellion.

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.

My Fastest Time In High School Was A 4:29 Mile. I Think Cross-country Has Something To Do With My Longevity In My Business. When You're In An Eight-mile Race, You Never Give Up.

Baby, Shut Up And Let Me Drink The Wine From Your Fur Tea Cup.

Pull My Trigger, I Get Bigger, Then I'm Lots Of Fun. I'm Your Gun, I'm Your Gun, Gun, Gun.

If You Confine It, You're Confining A Whole Thing. If You Make It Spontaneous, So That Anything Can Happen, Like We Don't Want To Confine Or Restrict Anything. What We Can Do, Whatever We Can Let Happen, You Just Let It Happen.

He (marilyn Manson) Has A Woman's Name And Wears Makeup. How Original.

Sex, Drugs And Rock 'n' Roll Is Easy. True Christianity…that's Rebellion.

And If I Am Elected, I Promise The Formation Of A New Party, A Third Party, A Wild Party.

When You Touch Me There, Honey, Makes My Blood Perspire, You Got My Body Flaming Like A California Fire. Pulsing, Pounding, Pushing No Longer In Control, Heatwave In My Brain, Smolder In My Soul.

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.

Chained In A Cell, Got My Own Private Hell. Preacher Crucifies Me, Warden Wants To Fry Me.

I Think He Was Trying To Produce More Of A... Sort Of A Cheaper Image.

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.

There's A Little Spinal Tap In All Of Us.

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'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.

I Came Into This Life, Looked All Around. I Saw Just What I Liked And Took What I Found.

I Can't Get My Wrists To Bleed, Just Don't Know Why Suicide Appeals To Me.

I Liked Jim Morrison A Lot As A Person. He Was This Very Poetic Character, And Death Was Always On His Mind. And It Showed Up In His Songs - I Mean, Almost Every Song He Wrote Had Something To Do With Dying. He Was An American Treasure That Went Way Too Soon.

My Granddad Was An Evangelist, And My Grandma, She Was As Tough As Nails. She Watched 'american Bandstand' Every Day When She Was In Her 80s, 90s. She Loved Rock Music. I Never Had Anyone In My Family That Was Anti-rock N' Roll.

Nobody And Nothing Beats The Simpsons. Even After All This Time, It's Still The Best Satire Since Monty Python.

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.

Every Single Night, There Seemed To Be The Same Seven Or Eight Guys - Harry Nilsson, Myself, Mickey Dolenz, Bernie Taupin, Keith Moon When He Was In Town. It Was Actually Sort Of A Social Club - Drinking Club - For Rock Stars That Drank - Seriously Drank.

While Friends And Lovers Mourn Your Silly Grave, I Have Other Uses For You, Darling. I Love The Dead.

We Cheated On Our Math Tests, We Carved Some Dirty Words On The Desk.

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.

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.

Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey Stoopid.

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.

You Know It's Always Funny - The More Legend Awards You Get, The Closer You Get To The Grave, I Guess, I Am Going Full Strength Right Now So It's Great To Get These While You're Alive, I'd Hate To Get Them After You're Dead.

Every Good Band In The World Was A Cover Band First. The Beatles Were And The Stones Were. Everybody Was A Cover Band.

It's Not Like We Did Something Wrong. We Just Burned Down The Church While The Choir Within Sang Religious Songs.

School's Out Forever, School's Been Blown To Pieces.

The Sicker Our Fans Get, The Sicker We'll Get

Everybody Was At The Top Of Their Game At That Point, In The Early '70s.

Take A Look At My Face, I Am The Future.

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's Like Making Fun Of A Maniac Because His Brain Isn't Completely Right, Because He Isn't In The Norm.

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.

Stage Performance

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.

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.

This Generation

We Got On His Label, And The Bizarre Organization Is Just Going Up And Up. So We Have Faith.

To Me, If You Are In The Same Building With Peter Sellers Or John Cleese, Or Any Of Those Guys And Holding Your Own Making Other People Laugh, That's A Compliment.

Scoring High In Procreation, Got An A Studying Female Anatomy.

Stick A Needle In Your Arm, You Bite The Dust, You Buy The Farm.

I Got A Muscle Of Love.

She Gets A Hundred For Her Body And A Nickel For Her Soul.

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.

Militant Mothers Hiding In The Basement Using Pots And Pans As Their Shields And Their Helmets.

Women On The Streets Want Money When We Meet. I Take Them For A Little Ride, Chop, Chop, Chop.

If Zipper Catches Skin, I'll Know I Had It Out When I Should A Kept It In.

Golf Is The Crack Of Sports. If You Hit Five Good Shots, You Know You Can Hit Six Good Shots. The Next Time You Hit Six Good Shots, You Know You Can Hit Seven.

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.

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 Don't You Pass The Gun Around And Give Everyone A Shot.

Make That Money Run Like Honey On Your Tongue.

No More Pencils, No More Books, No More Teachers' Dirty Looks, When The Teacher Rings The Bell, Drop Your Books And Run Like Hell

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.

I Was Nervous. I Mean, I'd Met The Beatles, And Elvis, And Everybody, But This Was Salvador Dalí . This Was Like My History.

Hard Rock Will Always Be Hard Rock, But You Don't Really Know What Is Rock - And What Isn't - Anymore. I Don't Consider A Lot Of The Pop Things I Hear On The Radio To Be Rock 'n' Roll. It's Just Kind Of Fragmented.

Reverend Smith, He Recognized Me And Punched Me In The Nose.

Mistakes Are Part Of The Game. It's How Well You Recover From Them, That's The Mark Of A Great Player.

If You Could Use Your Brain Like You Use Your Ass.

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