Alice Cooper Quotes

What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.

I think that NYC naturally brings out a bolder personality in people.

Everyone has their own tastes. Some people want to feel like it's Queen onstage, including the dress-up thing, but that's not my style. I do know some people love that and wish I would do it, but I have no interest in that.

I never wanted to be an actor, and to this day I don't. I can't get a handle on it. An actor wants to become someone else. I am a song-and-dance man, and I enjoy being myself, which is all I can do.

I started doing improv when I was 8 years old, so it's always been in my life. I would feel naked without it.

Some of my fans want me to just dance and go crazy and wear flashy outfits.

All my best friends live downtown in New York City. I was made in Soho.

I just like to write and then perform.

I feel like when I'm on stage, when I'm writing songs, singing songs, I'm in the studio, I'm shooting videos, I kind of get to become this character, and I can make that whatever I want to make that.

I don't consider myself a comedian because I don't really concern myself too much with jokes.

My style is a part of my music. You can't be an artist and not put any thought or effort into the way you appear.

Acting came easy to me, I think. There's something about it that's a lot easier for me in the sense that you're playing someone else. In music, you're giving somebody 'you.' Being able to do that and being willing to share that is an entirely different thing.

No matter what you're doing, whether it's a makeup tutorial or an interview or a lip sync, performance is the essence of drag. It is gender performance. Being able to produce a performance is what a superstar has to do.

I'm in love with artists that are really difficult to cover or to copy. You can only try to copy them, but you will never succeed because it's intertwined with really personal references and really personal ways to exist on stage. They are really strong individuals, and are writing their own songs and know where they want to go.

I want to act, perform in my own way.

I feel like my rise is connected to my lyrics, my look, my dance, my character, it all feeds into the same funnel, which is me, myself.

Watching somebody sing reveals a lot about character.

When I'm acting in TV or movies, I'm a character. But when I'm doing music, I'm Trevor Jackson.

I think, as singers and performers, we are ambassadors of the human experience. I don't want to get bored just talking about myself.

As a performer, I groove to my own songs.

No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.

I am 100% there when I'm doing what I'm doing when I'm onstage and recording. I don't ever want to look back at any moment and say to myself that I felt uncomfortable with who I am.

Sometimes I think I'm more comfortable onstage than I am in my own room. When I get onstage, it's kind of like your chance to let go and be something that you're not maybe. It's your time to dream.

For me to put a look together, if it's going to be a boy look or a girl look or whatever, is quite a tricky thing to do. I'm not doing drag because drag is seen in a certain way and my comedy has got zero to do with what I'm wearing. I could wear an elephant suit and say the same thing.

Writers and painters have a medium that can foster self-effacements. Actors haven't. An actor can't hide himself behind paper or canvas. If you're not there your art's not there. That's why we actors are often such self-centered objects.