I can't say I feel influenced by today's guitar players.
Once you start copying other people's licks, you begin thinking they're yours. Doing that's just an easy way out.
The guitar part is the pivot of everything we do, so if you change the guitar part you no longer have what it is.
It gives me a good feeling to know that people out there really care.
I was very keen on people like Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent.
I feel that my playing on the first album was probably some of my best.