Faces: Where did you grow up?
Stixx: I grew up in Sweden, in a small town called Skovde and I met Tim and Harry in 1985. We started getting serious in 1987, did an album in Sweden and then we took the album over here.
Bobby Lycon: I grew up in Queens, New York.
Tim Skold: I grew up in this little town in the middle of Sweden called Skovde.
Harry K. Cody: The first seven years of my life, I lived in this really small village called Surahammar. And then my family moved to Skovde.

Faces: What's the biggest misconception Americans have about Sweden?
Harry: Americans tend to think we're arrogant and mean. And they're pretty much right, aren't they?
Stixx: That all Swedish girls are easy.

Faces: How about you, Bobby? Did you have any misconceptions about Swedish people before you met this bunch?
Bobby: No, I just didn't think they spoke English.

Faces: What was the most difficult adjustment you had to make when you moved to Los Angeles?
Stixx: The weather. But I like the weather here, so it was a pleasant adjustement.
Harry: Living without friends, basically. We came out here and knew absolutelt no one at first. No friends, no TV, no furniture or money.
Tim: Roaches. Roaches were an amazing, new experience. Mine and Harry's favorite pastime for the first couple of months was to sail around the house with cans of Raid and spray anything that moved.
Bobby: With me, it was just living and getting around. Everything is further and it's a lot harder to live out here if you don't have a car.

Faces: What's the biggest difference about your home town and Los Angeles?
Harry: About twelve million people.
Stixx: Yo! (laughs) Forty thousand people live in my home town. I guess that's the biggest difference.
Bobby: The way people look, the way people act. People here are just a little bit freakier.
Tim: The music scene is much bigger here, although there is a very healthy club/band scene in our home town of Skovde.

Faces: How are the women different?
Stixx: If you go to the Valley, or if you go to Hollywood, they're totally different. Valley girls are more like Swedish girls. Hollywood girls are something else.
Tim: There's more of a choice here. More variety. With L.A. being so racially mixed, it's very exciting for us. Where we come from, everyon's a blonde. But here there's black girls, Hispanic girls, Oriental girls and all kinds of girtls! You don't have too many of those in Sweden.
Harry: But they're topless in Sweden. On the beaches anyway; very seldom in the work place.

Faces: How about the New York girls, Bobby?
Bobby: New York girls say "cwauffee". California girls say "cahffee".

Faces: How does the music scene differ?
Harry: People are more interrested in the musical side of things in Sweden. Whereas here, they seem to be in on the "stardom" trip - more of the hype.
Tim: It's like Deep Purple vs. Aerosmith. People here sem to be more Aerosmith-oriented, while the average Swedish musician grew up more on Deep Purple. But we didn't. That's why we fit better over here!
Harry: I guess we can kiss that Deep Purple tour "goodbye" if they ever read this.
Bobby: Thrash is bigger New York than here, and that's kind of like the only music scene happening there. Out here, it's more glam.

Faces: If you weren't a musician, what would you be doing?
Stixx: God, I don't know. Maybe a depressed graveyard gardener.
Harry: I'd be drawing and art and stuff. But I'm not sure I'd be able to do it for a living. (Pause) Then again, who would have thought I'd be able to make a living doing this?
Tim: Are you making a living doing this?
Harry: Well, I'm not dead, am I? At least not yet.

B.J. Shanklin