I remember old Elvis when he forgot to remember to forget.
I usually listen to surf music, not much instrumental music, and when I was younger I listened to jazz.
Early on I was more interested in gypsy jazz music until rock and roll came around and I listened to a lot of Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran and skiffle singer Lonnie Donegan.
When I talk about rock n' roll, to me, that goes back to the beginning of the 1950s. Blue suede shoes and sideburns, man. Pink and black coloured clothes. Turn your collar up, comb your hair in ducktails. And the music was cool. It was a whole culture then - a different world.
We both have different inspirations, style-wise. Lisa really loves Penelope Cruz and that classic gypsy look, whereas I like trashy hot messes and '50s pin-up girls.
A lot of your rock people, even early, like Elvis, have always come from the South.
Elvis Presley, you can't define him in a couple of sentences, but he was a country boy and he was very respectful.
The first songs I learned were 'It Takes a Worried Man' and Woody Guthrie's 'Grand Coulee Dam,' 'Rock Island Line' - those kind of American folk songs that were probably on the edge of blues. After that was Eddie Cochran and Chuck Berry songs. And then I heard Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed and Big Bill Broonzy on the radio.
When I pick up Hank Williams' guitar or that first suit that Johnny Cash wore on stage, it empowers me.
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.
My pop culture ended somewhere north of Elvis but not too far.
I remember having a lot of Josh White albums. Johnny Cash. Elvis. I loved the Coasters.
I'm a fan of all music, and probably my first - well, not the very first music I listened to, but back in the late fifties, when I first started hearing rock & roll, it was definitely tinged with doo wop and also Elvis and all those great songs.
I was obsessed with Elvis Presley when I was little.
Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
Duane Eddy is somebody I wanted to play like. I discovered him before The Beatles, and he totally got to me. He sent me a note back in 1977 and said that he really liked what Cheap Trick were doing. That's one of those 'Wow!' moments, you know?
People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys.
Rock and roll and swing never quite mixed. Rock and roll came in and just blew everything out of the water. Big bands were dead.
Elvis was a giant and influenced everyone in the business.
To me, all music that is made under the umbrella of the United States of America is Americana music.
Cliff Gallup is one of my heroes; I'd dearly love to meet him.
I started out just as Elvis was going into the army, Jerry Lee Lewis married his 14-year-old cousin, and Little Richard became a priest.
The blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists.
I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n' roll - that was music to me. Everything else was boring.
The only person that anybody's ever said I resemble is a young Elvis. It used to happen a lot more when I was younger, and more when I don't wear a hat.
