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

Don't be afraid to take liberties with this music. Try and put some of yourself into it.

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

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.

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.

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.