My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee and Fats Domino are the classics, theyre the best songs ever. – Chris Isaak
I hate modern car radios. In my car, I dont even have a push-button radio. Its just got a dial and two knobs. Just AM. One knob makes it louder, and one knob changes the station. When youre driving, thats all I want. – Chris Isaak
I come from a small town and I come from a background where we didnt have money to travel. I thought Id have to join the military to get to Europe. So Im thrilled to travel. – Chris Isaak
I think I had kind of an advantage. When I was growing up, my dad had just got out of jail and he had a great record collection. He had – it was all – these were the songs. So I heard a lot of these songs, like, my whole life, so for me it was easy. I already knew what I was going to sing. – Chris Isaak
We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. – Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man