It's not about how loud you turn the amp up. That's not what makes it sound big. What makes it sound big is fooling around with different delays and reverb settings.

I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos.

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.

Normally, you go into the recording studio, make a record and then take it on the road and you think... wow... I could have done THIS to it, or something.

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.

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

Mark Winchester has left the band. He's decided that he's tired of the road and just wants to concentrate on his career in Nashville. I don't blame him at all. He'll certainly be missed.

There's a fine line between pleasure and pain. Love me like a ball and chain.

The biggest challenge for me was Get Rhythm. I don't know why.

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

Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene.

Sordid things, for the most part, are what make human beings, my father included, move. That's what it is to be human, I'm afraid.

A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enenemies, is naturally jealous of his privacy... so it was, I think, with Dryden.

When I read a daring book or listen to rebellious music, I feel like I've found what freedom really means.

The more you let go, the faster you will move ahead.

We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.

The studios will go wherever they smell money. It's like sharks to the blood.

A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.

Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability?

I think in general I've never dared compose in Spanish. First of all, it is such an intricate language.

You may not be aware of this but Leonard Bernstein won another award, for explaining the music of Igor Stravinsky... to Igor Stravinsky!