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

For every rockabilly festival staged here, there are 10 held overseas.

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.

People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys.

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

I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through.

I can't tell you how many people have asked me to show them Stray Cat Strut and that little diminished run on the C. I guess my brain is wired backwards. I don't know what possessed me to do that, but I did.