The shock-rock icons kept talking long after Manson had appeared on Cooper's radio show recently, and the older man admits the pair were "feeling each other out."

Cooper tells Rolling Stone: "We have a lot in common in the fact that we both play characters. We both created a couple of monster characters. What we talked about on my show was, how do you deal with that character against your real life? It's so overpowering � does it ever take over?

"I've had a lot more time to work with Alice, so I know when to be Alice and when not to be Alice. I told him it's very hard to maintain a character 24 hours a day, and there may come a time when you have to divorce yourself from the character just so you'll like the character."