It's really funny, I think to myself... I've got my same guitar and amp, it's just a bigger room now! Some things don't change.

I don't think there is a musician today that hasn't been affected by Elvis' music. His definitive years - 1954-57 - can only be described as rock's cornerstone. He was the original cool.

... so much of what we do now started in 1954 at Sun Records in Memphis Tennessee ... those guys were inventing that stuff (Rock & Roll) ... you can really tell on some tracks ... they were actually afraid at times of what they were playing. But Rock & Roll definitely didn't come before that time; it started right there

I mean, what 16-year-old is going to listen to Doc Watson?

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 got cat class and I got cat style

It's really funny, I think to myself... I've got my same guitar and amp, it's just a bigger room now! Some things don't change.