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

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

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

I basically sat down for a month, with all the Sun stuff I could find and just picked out my favorites. I didn't think that they were indicative of '54 to '57, although I tried to stay within that period.

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.

You had to pick something like Blue Suede Shoes because it's the flagship of the Sun label, but then I wanted to dig down and find something like Rakin' and Scrapin'.

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.