It caught us by surprise when people started calling us a boy band because we’d always considered ourselves pretty serious musicians. Jay DeMarcus Read Quote
Some of my biggest commercial musical influences would be people like Merle Haggard, George Jones, of course, Johnny Cash. People that wrote and sang their own stuff, I really admired. Jay DeMarcus Read Quote
I was an ’80s child, so I grew up loving all kinds of ’80s rock. I like R&B, too. Jay DeMarcus Read Quote
I love every aspect of live performance and putting our shows together and approaching it from the standpoint of, ‘What would we want to see if we were a fan sitting in the audience?’ Jay DeMarcus Read Quote
If people would’ve heard what we were doing back in the clubs in the late ’90s, they would be really shocked to find out how country our sound really was back then. Jay DeMarcus Read Quote
I don’t know that I could pick a better place to raise a family than Nashville. Jay DeMarcus Read Quote
I think it happens with every career when you’ve been around 10 or 12 years. You start to get on cruise control a little bit, then you freak out and go, ‘Oh my gosh, we’ve got to change some things up.’ Jay DeMarcus Read Quote
We started out as a bar band. We were sometimes playing in front of 20 people. Jay DeMarcus Read Quote
That’s what we all hope and dream to do, when we stand in front of the mirror with our Goody comb and sing into it, is to have a bunch of songs that have touched people so much that they want to hear ’em every night. Jay DeMarcus Read Quote
