Alice Cooper Quotes

I think if you're writing from the heart, very often, the subject matter will adjust as you age... but you try to write the best song you can possibly write. For us, we have the same basic elements that make up the America sound.

I will play around with an idea for a very long time until it's found it's feet and it's good enough to become a song.

I really just tried to make a record full of great songs, which is the goal I always have.

I just want to give people the best album that I possibly can.

I want to produce the best popular music I can.

Every artist has the song where they say, 'I wish I could have written a song as good as this,' but they don't feel like they've done it yet. It pushes you to evolve.

If I had to pick an artist that I look up to and am inspired by, it's Matisse because of how many times he would paint the same idea until he felt like he maybe got it right, and I try to do the same thing with my writing.

I don't see any of my records as any more or less conceptual than the others, and I don't really plan some overall idea in advance. The songs all get written under the umbrella of a certain time in your life, and it's natural to find themes that repeat within these periods.

The tricky thing about songwriting is that, more often than not, what you consider to be your best work generates a collective shrug, and something you've simply tossed off bowls people over.

Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, 'It can't be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it.' That's kind of stuck with me.

I don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song.

The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.

I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.

I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.

My aim is just to make good music every single time.

Songs seem to take me a long time. I don't know why; they're not especially excellent for taking so long.

I am just trying to do a song the best possible way I can.

It don't matter who I'm working with. I just feel like I want to make the best record possible.

There's always a group of songs that I'm working at. Some of them are 10 years old, and some of them are just a few weeks old. I'm always trying to adjust these songs to some position where I can bring them to completion.

I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.

I be on some, perfecting my craft, just making sure the music is all the way there.

I wish I was really talented in music because then I would be doing it. I felt that I could write a decent song, but it was a big struggle.

'Bright Star' has been designed and the songs have been formulated around the way that I sing. That is the biggest gift of anything.

The more songs I've written, the more I've grown interested in telling a story. When I first began, I had this list of opaque phrases where you can make of it what you want.

I want to make music that I would like if it came on the radio.