2018 is already shaping up to be an eventful year for Alice Cooper. He’s as busy as ever after making it to 70 earlier this month — despite events, including a false nuclear attack and a car crash, that seemed to be conspiring against him.

Cooper was in Hawaii, where his longtime manager Shep Gordon resides, on January 13 during the nuclear attack alert that proved to be false. “You never want to see the words ‘imminent,’ ‘nuclear’ and ‘not a drill’ ever in one sentence,” Cooper, who turned 70 on Feb. 4, tells Billboard.

Read here about Cooper’s rocky start to 2018 and find out what projects he has lined up for the year.