Though the album was a very collaborative process, Cooper penned “Valley of Death” on his own. “That was the easiest and fastest song maybe I’ve ever written,” he says. “It’s just an honest song about the fact that when you are going through the valley, you can’t see what’...
“Friendship and loving disagreements have become lost arts. Most Americans don’t have any friends outside of their own religious or political paradigms,” he observes. “I’m not saying I think that is ‘evil,’ but I do think it unhealthy. Furthermore, that animosity and lack of empathy...