Alice Cooper on Johnny Depp, taking the show to Broadway, and why he won't retire
It has been an era of frenetic activity for the 74-year-old, and it shows no signs of stopping. “We’re used to doing a hundred and fifty to two hundred shows a year,” he says.
“I haven’t had a drug or a drink in thirty-nine years, so my drug is adrenaline and being on stage in front of an audience every night.”
Somebody once asked him: “Look, you do two hundred shows a year, every year, why don’t you just retire?”
he goes: “I write songs, I perform songs in front of an audience, that’s what I do.”
People had no idea Johnny Depp was a great guitar player. They think he’s a movie star trying to be a guitar player.
According to Cooper, the Pirates of the Caribbean star has been writing songs, which the veteran rocker expects to have been inspired from his recent personal dramas.