I wanted to go back to Sun. Unfortunately, most of the gear is gone from Sun. The way I take it now, it's almost like a tourist destination. So, it would have been pretty difficult to have brought all the gear into Sun to make it like it was in the '50's.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Don't be afraid to take liberties with this music. Try and put some of yourself into it.