I'm not God's gift to rockabilly. There's great players out there, and some of them deserve a lot more than they've gotten.

To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk's energy and feeling, but the players were much better.

We weren't afraid to mix some crazy styles into the standard rockabilly look. We also took a lot of different musical influences that were part of that era.

For every rockabilly festival staged here, there are 10 held overseas.

I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through.

With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in modern classics if you do rockabilly or blues.