Brian Setzer

I started a big band when grunge was popular. I mean, that didn't make much sense. ”

Just because you put super great musicians together, it doesn't mean you're going to have that chemistry as a band. ”

I love Glen Campbell. He never gets a mention. ”

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. ”

A lot of people put all that stuff on a pedestal, and they won't touch it. But I don't think that's the reason they did that. I think they played that stuff out of pure joy. ”

If you listen to everybody's opinions, I mean, I always say I'd be digging a ditch on the side of the road now if I had listened to what everybody told me what to do. You know, you have to follow your heart, you have to. ”

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

I basically sat down for a month, with all the Sun stuff I could find and just picked out my favorites. I didn't think that they were indicative of '54 to '57, although I tried to stay within that period. ”

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. ”