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.

To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.

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.

I thought it would be cool to take flat-picking and put it in overdrive. I thought it would bend the ear.

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

The jazz chord substitutions in a country song... that was another thing that bent people's ears. I guess that my favorites are the unique ones. It's not how fast you play. It's that unique blending of different stuff I'm most proud of.

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