Understanding Comics

Alice never did anything that was destructive to me. If you make a comparison of, say, Vince and Alice, and Dr. Frankenstein and the Monster, the Dr. Frankenstein character, my Vince thing, was doing all the destruction. Alice never drank on stage. When Alice was alive, the character for the hour and twenty-five minutes, an hour and a half, he never drank once, he never drank a drop. He didn’t have time. He was busy doing the show. He wasn’t the sinner at all. He was just doing what he did. The only time I didn’t drink during the day was when I played my character. So he was the one that was actually doing the right thing. The other character spent all the rest of the day, twenty-two and a half hours, blaming the Monster for everything. — Alice Cooper (Snakes and Dead Babies)