Skillet’s John Cooper recently did an interview with Michael Knowles where he discussed several subjects. Cooper was asked if the “rockstar lifestyle” applied to Christian bands.
”Yeah. Well, it shouldn’t, but unfortunately it does,” he said. “Everybody does stupid stuff, and a lot of people present as something that they are not, whether it’s hypocrisy or whether it was just a game or whether they fell into sin, whatever may happen, lapse in judgment.”
Cooper continued: “I was naïve when I first got into the scene. I just thought everybody’s gonna be totally like-minded and it’s gonna be whatever. And then you get into it, and then you’re, like, ‘Oh my gosh. I think he’s hitting on my wife. I’m pretty sure he is hitting on my wife.’ Same thing in politics… I honestly haven’t been that much around the whole political world, but in the last few years I have been, and I’m, like, ‘You mean the same guy that keeps talking about God and country is here?’ This kind of seems like a grift to me, and this is just about making money. And so some of that stuff is really disheartening. So I’m sad to say the answer is yes.”
Cooper’s full interview can be seen below.
