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

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

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.

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 not about how loud you turn the amp up. That's not what makes it sound big. What makes it sound big is fooling around with different delays and reverb settings.

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

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