I basically sat down for a month, with all the Sun stuff I could find and just picked out my favorites. I didn't think that they were indicative of '54 to '57, although I tried to stay within that period.

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.

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.

Elvis is not so difficult as Johnny Cash because his voice is so distinctive. If you try to copy Johnny Cash, it's just going to sound dumb.

People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys.

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