What is "the sound" of glam rock?

"A lot of [glam] bands took blues riffs and basic rock 'n' roll, like what the Stones were doing--even flat out ripping off the riffs--and put this spacy sound to it, a lot of high-pitched singing and background singers, and put pretty melodies in with this blues rock 'n' roll. It was more a dirty thing before, I think."

What do you think of recent Bowie projects like Hours or Earthling?

"Everyone used to say he was ahead of his time, and now I feel like he's just trying to stay with what's going on. I was really disappointed with that whole Nine Inch Nails thing, but I don't want to criticize him. He's amazing. Touring the U.S. as a bisexual and wearing makeup and doing theatrics [in the '70s]?! It was kind of happening in Britain, but I can't imagine them doing a whole U.S. tour. I wonder what people were thinking in the South?!"

There hasn't been a recent rock movement that has challenged people like glam did.

"It's kind of a time when you think everything's been done; and new music is coming, new sounds are coming out, but I worry that 'influences' aren't too big of an influence. We're trying to do this glam thing--so what are we going to do different? It's such a fun thing to do, and I like getting up there, dressing up, putting on more of an event with backup singers and getting people in the audience more involved; no one is really doing that here, so it kind of separates us, though we're still doing the '70s thing. But you can't duplicate somebody else's voice, so it's unique.... You can't find these sweets in no candy store, honey."