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.

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

The biggest challenge for me was Get Rhythm. I don't know why.

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

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

It is hard to play Blue Suede Shoes. I know everyone has heard it 10 million times, and that makes it even harder to play it, but there's a very laid back tempo on that. I was surprised at how slow it really was.

,,, all around it would have to be Eddie Cochran, because it wasn't just music with him; it was his guitar playing, his look, his singing, I'd say that, all things considered, he's probably my favorite "cat" of all time