I call it treason against rock 'n' roll because rock is the antithesis of politics. Rock should never be in bed with politics. ... When I was a kid and my parents started talking about politics, I'd run to my room and put on the Rolling Stones as loud as I could. So when I see all these rock stars up there talking politics, it makes me sick. .... 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.

" The band mistakenly assumed he meant 7 o'clock in the morning. Cooper is credited with helping to shape the sound and look of heavy metal. The success of this tour helped support the growing recognition that the classic Cooper songs were exceptionally clever tuneful and unique.

Away from music Cooper is a film actor a golfing celebrity a restaurateur and since 2004 a popular radio DJ with his classic rock show Nights with Alice Cooper. The band reached their commercial peak with the 1973 album Billion Dollar Babies. Furnier's solo career as Alice Cooper adopting the band's name as his own name began with the 1975 concept album Welcome to My Nightmare; in 2011 he released Welcome 2 My Nightmare his 19th album as a solo artist and his 26th album in total.