We weren't afraid to mix some crazy styles into the standard rockabilly look. We also took a lot of different musical influences that were part of that era.

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.

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

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

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 enjoy all aspects of singing and I'm luckily given the choice to be part of different styles of music.