Alice Cooper doesn’t plan to retire anytime soon.
“The word retirement is not in my vocabulary,” the singer said in a recent conversation with the radio station KLPX. “I have never felt better in my life. I have never done better shows than the ones I’m doing now. My band is unbelievable.”
Cooper made a similar comment last year in an appearance on Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk. Alice noted, “It’s all in your head. I really think so. And also if you’re physically well. I would not wanna play Alice Cooper if I didn’t look like Alice, the same way I looked like Alice in the ’70s. I still look like that Alice.”
“If I couldn’t sing like Alice, if I lost my interest in it, if I didn’t really love doing it,” the rocker revealed what might make him retire. “And the main thing is if nobody shows up. You can go out on tour, and if nobody buys tickets, you’re done. That’s not happened; in fact, it’s kind of doubled for us.”
Cooper also added, “I think people come to see Alice, and they’re expecting to see this relic, and they see the highest-energy show they’ve seen all year. I’ve never been in better shape.”
“A farewell tour hasn’t crossed my mind at all,” said Alice, speaking to Rock Candy magazine last year. “And it’s weird, because all my friends are retiring. Gene Simmons [of KISS] said to me recently, ‘Look, I’m done. Come December, it’s over.’ And I go, ‘Well, you know, these farewell tours go on for years and years now, right?’”
He continued, “But Gene was very serious and said, ‘Not this time. I promise you that come December, KISS as we know it is absolutely done.’ The guys in Aerosmith are saying the same thing, as are many other bands from my era. But none of that occurs to me. It’s never been a thought that I’d retire. I feel great, and the band sounds great. I’m 75, but I’ll be up there at 90 if I’m still in good enough shape.”
“You retire, you expire. That’s what my mom always says,” the musician also shared on the red carpet of 2022’s Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame ceremony.
Cooper is on a North American summer tour. It began on July 30 in Niagara Falls, Ontario, and will finish on August 17 in Tucson, Arizona.