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"The idea of marrying splatter and music and theatre is a great thing to do, but the song has to stand on its own. If it can't, without all the effects, don't do it. It's the music itself that makes it come alive."

"Having fun is the most important thing in the world. I've always tried to have as much fun as possible — in every situation and moment."

"Freedom and rock'n'roll are inextricably linked. Rock'n'roll and rock musicians just couldn't survive under restricted conditions, because the music as well as the musicians always want to experience everything to the full — which is why they are always in conflict with all the mechanisms and groups that try and restrict existing freedom."

"What we do on stage, in films, in literature or in the theatre is only fictitious horror, an attempt to copy with made reality with all artistic possibilities. Even the most realistic performance by an artist will still get nowhere near to describing daily horror realistically, because human fantasy just doesn't reach that far."

"I always felt I did the blood things in good taste... it was always gonna look great, be shocking and have humor. On the last tour, we took it to its nth degree. So to do all that again would be beating it to death, the whole blood business would become redundant."

"Alice's strength has always been his humor and his ability to deliver LPs and shows that people have talked about. And I've always confessed everything."

"I really don't think you can define trash. Trash is the fun part of life. We're all living is so much trash right now... but it's fun.

"It was always amazing to me that Alice Cooper was the terror of every American family, yet radio lodged no objections. And there was no stopping it. I am a total capitalist, yet being on the front cover of Forbes magazine was a total strike for freedom."