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

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.

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

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.

Rock & Roll is the physical thing that just comes out of you .. the other stuff you have to sit down and learn .. once you learn scales and chord progressions, you can make up your own versions

I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos.

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.