You had to pick something like Blue Suede Shoes because it's the flagship of the Sun label, but then I wanted to dig down and find something like Rakin' and Scrapin'.

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.

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.

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.

Life is not breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away.

In loquaciousness lay insanity.

I love listening to games on the radio... you can't see what's going on

Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip.

You should never be proud of doing the right thing. You should just do it.

Love is the strongest force in the universe

This is our world now The world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud.

I live on hairspray. The bigger the hair, the closer to God.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional need for certitude.