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

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

My D'Angelico is a jazz archtop guitar. That guitar was made for Glenn Miller's guitar player in 1939. It's a '39 D'Angelico New Yorker.

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.

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

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