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.

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

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.

Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene.

[The Rule:] Just do the next thing you're reasonably certain Jesus wants you to do.

Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.

Having failed to conquer myself, my best hope now is to arrange an alliance with myself.

Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.

The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age.

Liberty is the right and hope of all humanity.

Many artists have said that when life itself becomes fully conscious, art as we know it will vanish.

Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.

I should have shut up when I went up there and talked to Carlton Fisk.

I know everything that has happened to everybody in the past, everything that is happening now and everything that will happen in the future.