In our times that “occultism” and being “evil” and “satanic” are a trend in the music business, Alice Cooper didn’t fear at all to express his belief as a christian. The legendary hard rocker, a longtime devoted Christian, once again spoke candidly about his faith in a new interview with pastor and evangelist Greg Laurie. Raised by a preacher father, Cooper was surrounded by faith from an early age, but it wasn’t until he got sober in the ’80s that he fully committed his life to Christ.
When asked why he believes so many successful people — including major rock musicians — battle addiction behind the scenes despite thriving creatively, Alice explained in part: “I think if you don’t have the Lord in your life, you’re always gonna be trying to fill that hole with something. It’s either gonna be drugs or it’s gonna be Ferraris or it’s gonna be houses or wives or this or that or fame, and you’re never going to achieve it. Because there’s that inner thing of us that when we’re born of reconnecting with God that’s there. And even if you’re denying it, that’s what you’re searching for. And so they’ll go to, ‘Oh, the new fad is this. I’m gonna go be now a Buddhist.’ ‘I’m now going to be a vegetarian goat yoga person.’ ‘I’m gonna be this.’ And they go through everything and still don’t find it. And the last place they look is the Lord”.
When pressed on why he believes that happens, Cooper responded: “Well, I think because once you say, ‘God, you’re my God. You’re my savior,’ Now you have to answer to him. People do not want to give up their God self, the self that they control. I control my life. Even people that go to church. I go to church. Okay. Yeah. But you given yourself fully. And that’s where the fulfillment comes from. But you can’t explain that to somebody that’s not searching. People are searching, but they don’t want… As soon as somebody says ‘Jesus Christ’, they go, ‘Yeah. Well, right. I’m gonna go over here”.
“The most miserable people I knew were billionaires, because they had everything and they still did not, they didn’t have that fulfillment yet,” Alice added. “‘Okay, I’m gonna go climb Mount Everest naked.’ The three biggest billionaires in the world are in space. ‘I’ll go into space. Maybe that’s where I’ll find it.’ Isn’t that weird? It’s like a James Bond movie”.
When Laurie suggested that what those people are truly searching for is God, Cooper agreed. “If that’s not your final goal, and that’s should be the most important goal. Everything else is secondary, everything else is thirdary”.
“I always said this before, and a lot of people don’t like the statement, but if I were gonna put what’s important to me in order, Alice Cooper would be about fifth. Once you’ve answered that knock and once you’ve committed to that and once you start realizing how merciful that we’ve been treated and how much grace we’ve been given, when you look back at your life and you go, ‘Wow.'”.
Asked who Jesus Christ is to him, Alice responded: “He’s the core of everything. He’s life itself. He’s the light. I mean, if we don’t all revolve around Christ, then we’re way out in space somewhere. He draws you in. He’s the light. You’re drawn to that light. And it’s nothing you can explain in words. It’s something that happens to your heart where all of a sudden you realize who this is and you realize, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m not worthy of this.’ And yet still being hung on the cross, he knew your name, he knew my name. And that made me go, ‘How can I not believe in this?’ He changes your heart”.
Alice continued: “Now, he didn’t say, ‘And now that you’re a Christian, you can no longer be in rock and roll.’ His plan was, ‘Now you’re a Christian, go be in a rock and roll band. But follow me. Be Alice Cooper.’ And that’s what Christians don’t understand. I can be Alice Cooper. And I can’t tell you how many e-mails I get saying, ‘You know that song you wrote, ‘Hey Stoopid’? It changed my life. I was gonna kill myself. That song spoke to me.’ Some of the songs that don’t make any sense at all, they go, ‘I turned to Christ because of that song.’ And I go, ‘That song?’ It spoke to them differently. It said something differently. So now when I write, I always try to have some lyric pointing towards Christ, some lyric”.
