Everything his publicist told me about Alice Cooper is true. He’s articulate, funny and engaging. A Conservative Christian who’s been sober for 25 years, he’s 61; on a scale of affability, he’s far closer to his late friend Bob Hope than he is to, say, John Lydon. Age suits him; the wrinkles strangely complement his carefully dishevelled head of luxuriant, ink-black hair.
“In 1969, you said: ‘Live fast, die young and leave a good-looking corpse.’ That hasn’t worked, has it?”
“No. Which is funny, because all my buddies from the early days – the guys I used to drink with – they’re all dead. Jim Morrison. Janis Joplin. Jimi Hendrix.”
Taken from an article in the Independent.