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 is what this is.- Alice Cooper
You can't get the visual thing on the record as much as you would like to. We produced this album, and we'd never done that before, except when we produced singles for ourselves.
Yet I was Marilyn Manson - times 10.
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 are always improving and growing.
Well, we were all in high school and we got together, and in college - we were in art college together.
We wanted it more live and raw. We didn't want a studio sound.
We try to be as much involved in our product as possible, because then it's us.
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 is the whole idea of it.
We play it differently now. If we did the album now it would be different.
We like reactions - a reaction is walking out on us, a reaction is throwing tomatoes at the stage, that is a healthy psychological reaction.
We just set it up and recorded it the way we played it. But that was the way we played it then.
We got on his label, and the Bizarre organization is just going up and up. So we have faith.
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.
They pick all of us out, and then they decide, they computerize, decide if they like it or do not like it, and then they go home, and then they come back again because they're not sure what they saw.
The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.
