![]() My understanding is that for the first time, most of the production control on Victorious was handled by you and Korey. We hear stories like that almost every day, and it is always shocking and amazing what God does, it is truly humbling to see how God can use me like this through the power of music. And he says it all came from hearing our song. When I met him, he said he’d been clean for three years, and the judge had recently given him rights to see his daughter. He went into rehab for a year and got off of meth addiction. Our song kind of became his reason to fight. He heard one of our songs on the radio and realized he needed to go into rehab. ![]() I met this guy at a show, and he said he had been married and had a two-year old kid, and his wife left him with the kid and wouldn’t let him see her because he had drug problems. We do have a lot of fans that are not religious, not Christians, outside of the church, etc. It is surprising to me because I know what music can do, but I’m still surprised what my music can do that God can do through my music. But we hear some really amazing stories, and they are always “God” stories. JC: We don’t get as much time as we used to when playing small clubs and places, where we could hang out with them for an hour or two. Do you get much of a chance to interact one-on-one with kids on the road? If so, what kind of needs to you find with them, and do you have any stand-out testimonies from them that you can share about the inspiration they’ve drawn from your music? I love writing, and I love creating, and it is not real difficult for me to get into that headspace. I think writing also requires discipline. Some bands say they can only really write when they have an inspiration, but I am not that. So, we’ll go in, and pray, and ask God what we should write about and that sort of thing. There is time, though, where we have to make a concerted effort and say, “We need to write today.” We‘ll schedule times to get together and write, and we’ll save up ideas for those times, and then sometimes we don’t feel inspired and have no ideas. So when we get inspired, we write and record straight away if we were in the mood. On this record, it was cool because we brought a traveling studio around on tour. That really inspires me, so I do most of my writing while we’re touring. Meeting the fans, hearing their stories at like a meet and greet, or notes they may give me. I think a lot of it, for me, is getting inspired from the fans. The most inspiration I have is while we’re touring, of course, we’re always touring. JC: I usually write while I’m on the road. How do you approach the writing process for each new album? Are they just songs written over the time since the previous album, or is there a sit-down writing session before each album, and then consciously written with a certain approach and theme for the album? When I told my children, who are now in their teens and early twenties, that I was about to talk to John Cooper – well, let’s just say they think I’m a little bit more famous now. So, for 16 years now, my family and I have devoured each new helping that Skillet released. I’ve known of Skillet’s work since seeing their videos in 2000-ish but became a real, product buying, concert-going fan since 2003’s Collide was released. I recently caught up with frontman John Cooper to get some details on the new album, as well as the band’s forthcoming graphic novel Eden. The newest release from Skillet has been sprinkled out to us over the past weeks in the form of a few early released singles, but finally, the whole album officially lands today.
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