The songwriting has never really stepped forward from the '50's.

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.

Silence does not always mark wisdom.

The earliest childhood memories are woven by shadows. And some of these shadows are woven from fire.

A wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interests than it is theirs to find his weak point.

If you give yourself totally to the nonviolence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts and you will never go hungry and never be alone.

I think I will serve as secretary of state as my last public position.

To be Christian it will cost a man his love of ease.

At Rest An American Soldier And Defender of the Constitution.

There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

I've come to think of myself as a writer of books.

When you're onstage with Chris Rock, anything can happen. He is one of the greatest comic geniuses we've ever seen.