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

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

If you listen to everybody's opinions, I mean, I always say I'd be digging a ditch on the side of the road now if I had listened to what everybody told me what to do. You know, you have to follow your heart, you have to.

Elvis Presleys' first album had more energy and more enthusiam than any other album at the time - when it was released it just blew everything else out. It changed the whole landscape of music

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 wanted to go back to Sun. Unfortunately, most of the gear is gone from Sun. The way I take it now, it's almost like a tourist destination. So, it would have been pretty difficult to have brought all the gear into Sun to make it like it was in the '50's.

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