When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years later it became sort of serious-looking and a bit foreboding.

Being a hybrid maker off and on over the years, I'm very comfortable with the idea and have been the subject of quite a few pretty good mash-ups myself.

Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn't see a space in which we could get anything together.

Now I realize that from '72 through to about '76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn't have been more rock star.

You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

I would dream. I focused all my attention on going to America. The subculture, James Dean, the rock n' roll, the beat writers.