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Vincent Furnier, also known as Alice Cooper, doubled down on his Christian faith in yet another interview with Greg Laurie.

The second sit-down with Harvest Ministries premiered in November 2025 and has been viewed almost a million times.

For comparison, Laurie’s first chat with the goth-rock storyteller popped up in 2019 and sits at 950,000 views.

TBN network shared a shortened version of that interview in 2024, highlighting the rock legend’s fame, flaws, faith and family.

Notably, TBN’s Cliff Notes version of why Cooper is a Christian has reached close to 5 million.

His faith is not a fad. Cooper started speaking more in depth about his views on Jesus Christ in the early 2000s.

“A Character That I Play”

While 1997 is the first verifiable instance, it was a 2002 interview with Hard Music magazine (HM, formerly Heaven’s Metal) that seems to have kick-started real interest in the singer’s Christian convictions.

Specifically, how Cooper reconciled them with his trademark metal-infused choreographed carnage on stage.

He told HM the rock image isn’t real life.

“The Alice character is a character that I play,” he said. “The same way that if I were playing Dracula, or the Joker, or Mingna the Merciless.”

“It’s a character that I play on stage, and when I leave the stage, he stays there.”

“I go home and, you know, take the kids to the basketball game, and take my little girl to ballet class.”

However, Cooper said, the line between the person and the persona wasn’t always as well defined.

“I grew up in a Protestant church — a very strong ‘Bible-believing’ church.”

“My grandfather was an evangelist for 60 years. I was in church on Wednesday nights, Friday nights, and all day Sunday. All my friends were church kids, and I was very happy.”

From Church Kid to Rock Star

Then, “in high school, all of a sudden, the Beatles came along, and I saw a way for me to express myself.”

“I was going to be an artist of some sort,” Cooper recounted.

“I didn’t want to work at Safeway. I didn’t want to work with my dad at drafting, or anything like that. So, we put a band together just to make some money on the weekends.”

Although the big break was what he wanted, success came with snares.

“Unfortunately, along with that break comes all the things you don’t see.”

For example, Cooper explained: “You don’t see the alcoholism coming. You don’t see the sin that comes with it.”

“But I got caught up in it, just like anything else.  You know, fame, money, power. And I invented a character that a lot of people thought was satanic.”

“I never, ever once thought Alice was satanic.”

“I always looked at Alice as being much funnier than that. And, even in those days, I was very insulted if somebody said, ‘Satanic.’”

“I always thought, ‘That’s really not what I believe in at all.”

“I still believe in God. I still believe in Christ,’ but I wasn’t a committed Christian.”

“My dad was a pastor, so it was probably hard on him, even though he was a music fan. He didn’t mind the music. He just didn’t like what came with it.”

Alcoholism, Marriage, and a Turning Point

Alice Cooper recalled a reawakening in the 1990s, saying that the lifestyle was starting to kill his marriage.

“I had been going to church with my wife. Her dad’s a pastor. We almost broke up, because of the drinking. I had an alcohol problem,” he admitted.

“Finally,” Cooper said, “we went with a Christian counsellor, and we decided to start going to church together.”

Describing this as “squirming” in the back row, and vowing never to return, only to then go back again every Sunday, he recalled doing it because what he was being taught was right.

“I think that I became a Christian, initially, more out of the fear of God, rather than the love of God,” Cooper told HM.

“I truly did believe that He was in control of my eternal destiny. I did not want to go to Hell. And I became a Christian, I think, out of fear. But I think fear, you know what they say, is the beginning of knowledge.”

Despite the ups and downs, and wrestling, Cooper’s journey flourished.

As Cooper retells it: “When I started, you know, really understanding Christianity, that’s when I started becoming more in love with Christ. I think that is an ongoing process.”

“I think that you don’t just fall in love with Christ and that’s it. I think that you learn to love Him more all the time. So, I’m still in that process of learning more and learning to love more.“

“When my life ends, I want Christ to say, ‘No, he’s one of Mine,’ and be washed in that blood, rather than washed in any other blood,” Cooper declared.

Stating in 2002 what he’s repeatedly affirmed in interviews two decades later, Cooper said, “This is where I am today.”

“It’s an ongoing thing.”

“Being a Christian is something you just progress in. You just keep progressing. You learn. You go to your Bible studies. You pray.”

“And it’s not always easy, because there are so many things in the world that pull you away.”

Praise God

Talking about how he’s avoided being adopted by Christian celebrity culture, which HM described as “gloating about ‘look who we’ve got,’” Cooper said he credits the wisdom of close friends.

“I have been surrounded by guys that are strong Christian guys; a youth pastor, my pastor, and all of them have protected me.”

“They’ve all said,” Cooper noted, “’You know, it’s great who you are. Be careful of celebrity Christianity,’ because it’s really easy to use somebody.”

“It’s really easy to focus on Alice Cooper and not on Christ.”

Blunt, Cooper called it blasphemy.

“It’s so embarrassing — In the very beginning, when somebody would say, ‘We want you to speak at our youth thing,’ and you get there, and it says, ‘ALICE COOPER’ in huge letters, ‘speaking about Christ’ in small letters.”

“I’m sitting there going, ‘That is blasphemy; the fact that my name is even bigger’” than Christ’s.

“That tells me something right there that something’s wrong,” Cooper remarked.

“I’m a rock singer. I’m nothing more than that. I’m not a philosopher. We all have our ideas on what’s going on in the world. I’m not a politician. I’m a rock singer.”

‘My job is rock and roll. My life is dedicated to following Christ.”

Also, “I am not necessarily praise rock. I’m not Christian praise music,” Cooper added.

“I think that I go to a different place.”

“I think that Christianity needs to go much more into the secular arts. I think we need to be heard not just by Christians.”

“I don’t mind being the prophet of doom. If God is going to use Alice Cooper, it’s going to be more on a level of a warning.”

“It’s not going to be on a level of, ‘Isn’t everything great? Aren’t we all wonderful?’ Alice is going to be more like, ‘Be careful! Satan is not a myth.”

Cooper then shared with HM: “I pray before I go on stage every single time that my ultimate message here is in glorification of God, not in any destruction of God.”

Speaking to his critics, Cooper said, “I was one thing at one time, and I’m something new. I’m a new creature now. Don’t judge Alice by what he used to be. Praise God for what I am now.”

Alongside the Laurie and HM interviews, Cooper’s candid Christ talk will also feature in his much-anticipated memoir, Devil on My Shoulder.

That autobiography is set to be released later this year.