Guitarists From The United States

"I was just wondering if you'd come along, Hold up my head when my head won't hold on. I'll do the same if the same is what you want. But if not I'll go... I'll go alone."

"I need so.. to be in your arms, see your smile, hold you close"."

"We were walking Just the other day. It was so hot outside, You could fry an egg. Remember you were talking, I watched as sweat ran down your face. Reached up and I caught it at your chin, Licked my fingertips."

"Lying under this spell you cast on me Each moment The more I love you."

"Come and relax now, put your troubles down. No need to bear the weight of your worries, just let them all fall away."

"Crazy how it feels tonight Crazy how you make it all alright love You crush me with the things you do And I do for you anything too."

"And as you go I will spread my wings. Yes, I will call this home. I have no time to justify to you, Fool, you're blind, move aside for me. All I can say to you my new neighbor, You must move on or I will bury you."

"You've got your ball, You've got your chain. Tied to me tight, tie me up again. Who's got their claws In you my friend? Into your heart, I'll beat again. Sweet like candy to my soul, Sweet you rock And sweet you roll. Lost for you, I'm so lost for you."

"I will go in this way Oh and I'll find my own way out."

"Hey my love do you believe that we might last a thousand years or more if not for this?"

"Now let's make this an evening Lovers for a night, lovers for tonight. Stay here with me, love, tonight. Just for an evening When we make Our passion pictures. You and me twist up, Secret creatures. And we'll stay here. Tomorrow go back to being friends."

"What I want is what I've not got, but what I need is all around me."

"I find sometimes it's easy to be myself, sometimes I find it's better to be somebody else."

"And I can't believe that we would lie in our graves, Dreaming of things that we might have been."

"Celebrate we will Because life is short But sweet for certain We're climbing two by two To be sure these days continue."

"I don't understand at best, I cannot speak for all the rest. But you may find a lifetime's passed you by. Every dog has its day, every day has its way Of being forgotten."

"It all comes down to nothing..."

"Turns out not where, but who you're with, that really matters."

"Leave the big door open, everyone'll come around..."

"I am who I am who I am who am I Requesting some enlightenment Could I have been anyone other than me?"

"The future is no place to place your better days."

"See you and me, have a better time than most can dream. Have it better than the best, so we can pull on through. Whatever tears at us... whatever holds us down, And if nothing can be done, well make the best of whats around."

"So let us sleep outside tonight, Lay down in our mother's arms, for here we can rest safely."

"Would you like to play With the thought of a friend In a distant passing stage While you lie around With your hands up and out So resigned you will fall down."

"Satellite headlines read Someone's secrets you've seen. Eyes and ears have been Satellite dish in my yard. Tell me more, tell me more. Who's the king of your Satellite Castle?"

"If at all God's gaze falls upon us all it's with a mischievous grin, look at him."

"Take these chances Place them in a box until a quieter time Lights down, you up and die."

"Candyman tempting the thoughts of a Sweet tooth tortured by the weight loss Program cutting the corners. Loose end, loose end, cut, cut. On the fence, could not to offend. Cut, cut, cut, cut."

"I'm not going to change my ways just to please you, or appease you."

"So why would you care To get out of this place? You and me and all our friends, Such a happy human race. Eat, drink and be merry, For tomorrow we die."

"Being a physicist, my father was a great believer in progress, but he also loved nature. He was a photographer, and outside of taking the occasional family photographs, all he did was photograph nature. He loved birds. That meant a lot to me growing up. Healthy progress also means we have to be concerned for the environment. That may have something to do with what I believe about farming."

"That's the magic of this band: shooting from the hip. The lights have to follow our cues, because we're not going to follow their cues. We're not going to stick to a song the way it's supposed to be. Everything is up to us. That's music to me. That's American music. We're an American band."

"There's often a lot of stupid ideas like "you all dress as fruits and pretend you're selling underpants" or "we'll put you on a bed of nails and drive a truck over the top and photograph you" for the cover."

"I'm way more American than George Bush and Dick Cheney."

"Oh! We already, we done already done it, done it, dammit! I could you know, like, sing a thing, and then not sing it for a little while, and then sing it again... and people would be like, "Why'd he sing that again?""

"He wakes up in the morning Does his teeth, bite to eat and he's rolling Never changes a thing. The week ends the week begins She thinks, we look at each other Wondering what the other is thinking But we never say a thing These crimes between us grow deeper."

"You seek up a big monster for him to fight your wars for you."

"Our good friend LeRoi Moore passed on and gave up his ghost today, and we will miss him forever."

"So I watched the Pink Panther last night, and so I'm trying desperately to be funny, and then it's just not working out so good... I wonder if maybe I could've been a comedian or something like that, or maybe I could've been a doctor, then I wouldn't have to make anyone laugh."

"Every day things change, but basically they stay the same."

"If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal."

"Sometimes I think that TV evangelism is one of Satan’s greatest weapons. They put these guys on a pedestal and all of a sudden they get caught with a prostitute, and every Christian I know then is under the gun. So you don’t think that’s kind of set up?"

"Well, before you are always self—you’re always self-centered. Everything is for you. Your self is God. And we make lousy gods. Humans make lousy gods, I think. We need to let God be God and us be what we are. I think that’s what changes: the focus on who you’re serving. You’re not serving you. You’re serving Christ."

"I’m telling you, the Devil is very smart. He’s not going to come out with the horns and the tail. He’s going to come in as the slickest car salesman you ever saw – and I’ve seen some pretty slick pastors on TV. Now that’s not to say they’re all like that. … But every time I hear something that goes a little left of center, I go, ‘What? What was that?’ You know, too much healing on TV, I don’t know about that. That’s showbiz I think."

"To me, if you are in the same building with Peter Sellers or John Cleese, or any of those guys and holding your own making other people laugh, that’s a compliment."

"I get onstage now with more attitude at fifty-seven than I had when I was twenty. When I was twenty, my attitude was kind of like, "Yeah, yeah…I'm a big rock star." Now, when I get onstage, I go up there, and I am the Moriarty of rock. I am the consummate villain. I am the Hannibal Lector of rock, and I play it like that. Alice just seems like an arrogant bastard or villain who is making the audience feel as though they are lucky to be there when in reality that is exactly the opposite of my personality. With Alice though…it is great to play him or portray him as an Alan Rickman type character who is very condescending. That’s what makes him fun to watch — he's Captain Hook."

"I’m understanding that there are cases of transgender, but I’m afraid that it’s also a fad, and I’m afraid there’s a lot of people claiming to be this just because they want to be that,” he said. “I find it wrong when you’ve got a six-year-old kid who has no idea. He just wants to play, and you’re confusing him telling him, ‘Yeah, you’re a boy, but you could be a girl if you want to be.’"

"In the early days when I was drinking ... I had a very blurry line about where those two were... but I mean, that happens when you drink twenty-two hours a day. I would just sit and drink. I didn’t know whether or not I was supposed to be Alice when I went out for dinner and was a little lit. Then there was the question about whether or not I should wear the make up because I didn’t really want to disappoint anyone. Was I supposed to get into trouble? Was I supposed to get arrested that night? All of those questions went through my mind. You have to remember though who my older brothers and sisters were though--guys like Jim Morrison and Keith Moon and all the people who were living that life. After they all died, I just sat there and went, “if one generation is going to learn from the next the truth is going to have to be that you don’t have to die to be your character.” I figured then that I had better be able to separate the two. When I go onstage as Alice to this day, I play Alice to the hilt — I play him for everything he is worth, but when I’m offstage, I never think about Alice Cooper. He never occurs to me. .. I walk off stage though and I turn away from the audience, I go back to being me again. Whenever I see an audience, that’s when I turn into Alice. If there was no audience there, there would be no reason to be Alice. … If I tried to be Alice Cooper all the time — I’d either be in an insane asylum or in jail or dead. Alice is just too intense, and you just can’t be Alice all the time. Jim Morrison couldn’t be Jim Morrison, so he died. Jimi Hendrix couldn’t be Jimi Hendrix, so he died. That’s really what killed Janis Joplin, Keith Moon and all the way down the line. They were all animated characters who couldn’t live up to their lifestyle, so I said that I needed to be able to separate the two — that’s why I’m still here."

"The minute you step onstage, you get eight feet taller"

"From the moment I leave my house or my hotel room, the public owns me. The public made Alice Cooper and I can't imagine ever turning my back on my fans."