Elvis is not so difficult as Johnny Cash because his voice is so distinctive. If you try to copy Johnny Cash, it's just going to sound dumb.

I thought it would be cool to take flat-picking and put it in overdrive. I thought it would bend the ear.

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.

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 mean, what 16-year-old is going to listen to Doc Watson?

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.

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