INTERIVEW: Skillet
January 7th, 2007 | 
Interviews | Source: Renown Magazine (8)
If you are a teenager or a child that is hurting, I hope you listen carefully to why John Cooper from the rock band Skillet wrote the song “Those Nights” from the group’s new album Comatose.
“While I was growing up my mom died when I was fourteen. I got into this terrible home life situation with my dad and (for a period) of four years it was either me yelling at him or him yelling at me,” says Cooper. He allows that a lot of the tension was due to working through the natural cycle of grief. He continues, “My dad got remarried two months after my mother died and my step mother’s husband had died about two months before my mom so both of them were dealing with very recent deaths of their spouses. They had three kids and we had three kids. It was a bad situation. I hated living there and I hated life.” […read more]
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