We’ve always prided ourselves on the fact that we’re a band that the whole family can enjoy together. Jay DeMarcus Read Quote
It’s no secret that anybody who knows the music business knows that the numbers are substantially different in Christian music than they are in country music. Jay DeMarcus Read Quote
I grew up in the church and loved contemporary Christian music. I go back to the early days of when it first started with the likes of Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith. Those people that really pioneered are heroes of mine. Jay DeMarcus Read Quote
We spent night after night out there learning the art of entertaining a crowd. Jay DeMarcus Read Quote
People would say, ‘Why are you guys in country music? You look like you’re in the Backstreet Boys.’ We took so much heat. We always said, ‘It’s not about hats and Wrangler Jeans. It’s about a state of mind. Country is in our souls.’ Jay DeMarcus Read Quote
We were so influenced not only by country music but by the rock bands of the ’80s. Our focus was to bring in something different. Country music already had a George Strait and Alabama. We wanted to put some pop music in our show. Jay DeMarcus Read Quote
I love watching new acts find their footing. It’s fun to watch them early on in their careers and get a gut feeling about who’s going to be a superstar. Jay DeMarcus Read Quote
It’s really easy to be grounded again when you get back home, and you sing in front of 20,000 people a night, and your wife hands you the kids and tells you it’s your turn to be on diaper duty and take out the trash. So it’s easy to keep things in perspective when things like that happen. Jay DeMarcus Read Quote
I think Christmas, for me, has always been about family, as cliche as that sounds. Jay DeMarcus Read Quote
