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

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

As a genre, rockabilly's post-Elvis profile has seldom been lower in the United States. Many labels that produced fresh bass-slappin' sides during the '90's are now out of business.

To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk's energy and feeling, but the players were much better.

The songwriting has never really stepped forward from the '50's.

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.

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.