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

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

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.

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.

Normally, you go into the recording studio, make a record and then take it on the road and you think... wow... I could have done THIS to it, or something.

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.

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

Mark Winchester has left the band. He's decided that he's tired of the road and just wants to concentrate on his career in Nashville. I don't blame him at all. He'll certainly be missed.

There's a fine line between pleasure and pain. Love me like a ball and chain.

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

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

Professionals and good Samaritans, once be the gardener of the nation, would root up corruption.

And though our roots belong to the same tree, our branches have grown in different directions.

Gospel (good news) must be represented through the media

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

Taylor deserves it. I don't think there is anyone with half a brain that would say otherwise. She has done a lot for us in country music. We are lucky enough in country music to call her one of us.

The crucial people to get your product started for the first 6 months are not who will be using it 3 years later.

Little-known fact: When the stock exchange closes, the guy who comes out on the balcony with that big hammer slams it on the head of the person who lost the most money that day.

Man's conditioning has been so powerful that It has all but distroyed his ability to be self aware.

My message is simple - freedom works a lot better than the authoritarian style of government.

I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting