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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.