Alice Cooper co-hosts Rock Classics Radio with Jenn on Apple Music Hits for a Halloween special, including tracks from The Beatles, The Beach Boys and The Who, who all had an impact on him growing up. He also talks about his recent tour, that he’ll be cutting a new record in Nashville over Halloween, how he always wanted to be "the villain" in rock and roll, and what he wants his tombstone to say. An excerpt has been transcribed as follows:

Alice Cooper on wanting to be the villain in rock and roll:

"No. I never heard a criticism from [my father]...Look, well, he knew I wasn't St. Channick right. I was a Christian kid... there's songs that are very gospel. You have any song like 'Second Coming', you know... those, those were almost Christian songs, but almost all of my songs were talking about... Not how good the devil was, but how bad the devil was. Rock and roll needed a villain. True rock and roll didn't have a villain. We had all these Peter Pans... no Captain Hook. And... I looked around and went, 'I will gladly be that villain.' Jim Morrison, maybe it was the closest thing to it. He was a dark outlaw, kind of everything was about death, but he wasn't threatening... Alice, I wanted Alice to be threatening and yet funny at the same time, you know? I wanted that combination of not exactly knowing what he was going to do, but you know, he may... he may slit your throat, but he would never swear at you... know what I mean? He was a gentleman villain and arrogant and condescending. And yet I didn't mind him slipping on a banana peel once in a while for the laugh, you know, there's nothing funnier than a guy like that, blowing it in front of an audience and then having to recover."

Alice Cooper on what he’ll be doing for Halloween:

"It's going to be home with my grandkids, taking them trick or treating... and now it seems I'm going to be in Nashville in the studio cutting the new record. So I'm going to miss it this year, but I don't know... do they wear masks when they they're wearing masks already? Halloween is perfect for kids they're already wearing masks!"