I listen to everything from The Cure and The Clash to Prince and George Clinton.
When it comes to the stage, I can't help but be inspired by people like George Clinton, Elton John and Alice Cooper.
I didn't really have a mentor, but I have always definitely been inspired by the '70s - the Stones, Patti Smith, Anita Pallenberg.
I love Eighties rock.
I grew up listening to classic rock - the Kinks, Genesis, The Who, Pink Floyd.
I do get credit for having a California sound to my music, but I don't think people really know what that means - they think the Beach Boys. I'm thinking more like Sunset Strip in the 1960s and stuff like that.
The 1970s was probably the most exciting decade to be a teenager, from discovering Little Richard at the end of the 1960s to glam rock to punk rock to electro music. So much happened in that 10-year span. There were so many musical revolutions. Some were happening at the same time. You had disco going on behind punk. You had Michael Jackson. You had the Sex Pistols.
I started going to Madame Louise's, the lesbian club where all the punk bands used to go - the Sex Pistols, the Clash. I remember seeing Billy Idol walk in there; he was gorgeous.
This week, I'm a gypsy. Maybe next week it'll be glitter rock.
Portugal is like Ziggy Stardust. The period is there, so you know that it's not the country, it's Portugal. The 'Man' states, 'He's the man.'
Once I was finally liberated from my Kansas background, the first thing I did was get a sewing machine, because it's 1972, and I have to look like Mick Jagger and David Bowie every single second. Taffeta jumpsuits.
England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically.
I am really into '70s music, like The Rolling Stones, The Doors and what not.
David Bowie - I definitely knew some of his music as a teenager, but I didn't actually listen to his music as much until I was in my 20s.
There was a period of time when I thought I had to be Alice Cooper all the time.
I listen to a lot of Pink Floyd, the Doors, Elton John, Sabbath, Metallica, GN'R, Megadeth - just classic rock, classic metal stuff.
When I was 9, I was into T. Rex, Gary Glitter, and Alice Cooper. I knew The Beatles because my nan introduced me to them, but T. Rex was the first band I got into myself. I got 'Metal Guru' a few months after hearing 'Children of the Revolution' in Pwllheli in North Wales at a market.
I used to jam with Steve Marriott of the Small Faces.
The Beatles, the Small Faces and the Kinks were great bands, but that was in the '60s.
Rock never meant the same thing to everyone, but when I was growing up in the late seventies, everyone could identify the five, ten bands that formed the center.
Absolutely. Slade! A band that would never bend over.
You had to read what I wrote if you lived in L.A. in 1975 and cared about pop music.
I hated most music in the 1970s, especially disco, but Bowie was edgier.
Spittin' blood, smokin' guitars, fire everywhere - Kiss is where I started.
I just love Bowie. I think he's the ultimate inventor.
