Quotes from Marc Martel

I liken the Queen thing to being in a worship service. Everyone comes having grown up with this music. It's in their blood, in their souls. Every night, it's always a huge standing ovation.

All I can do is be faithful with my gift, be faithful with anyone I talk to and let love be my guide and just be gracious with people. God will take care of the rest. I really believe that.

My biggest influences when I was a kid - I listened to a lot of top 40 radio, so whatever the big artists were, so, like, the mid-'80s.

I'm a huge mimic. That's how I learned to sing. I listened to a lot of Freddy Mercury, obviously.

That was how I had developed my singing style in the first place - imitating other singers like George Michael and Richard Marx.

I ended up taking piano lessons at a really young age, I took, like, years of piano lessons, and I always loved to sing.

Honestly, 198,9 I was 12 or 13 years old and primed for the new boy band thing. This guy Jordan Knight sounded like a chick, and I wanted to figure out how to do it, and I did.

I always loved music - it was always in the house - and my younger brother is musical, too.

Freddie Mercury wrote songs that were real and true.

People have been telling me for years that I sound like Freddie Mercury.

Rock n' roll is the music where you can get away with pretty much saying everything, and it's OK. You can say truths in really interesting and good ways and really express yourself through it.

Queen had incredible songwriters.

The name Downhere comes from a song I wrote after a friend of mine died in college, and it was kind of the first time I was dealing with loss and, you know, real mortality, and it was a song of how down here on Earth, we don't have the big picture.

It sure is cool that I was mentioned in 'Rolling Stone.'

If the Christian community responds to our music better because maybe we gained a little more credibility in the mainstream, then it's not ideal, it's not fun, it's not sexy, but I'll take it.

You're a musician and you live and die by people responding to your music. It's a business just like anything else and if people don't like your music, that's kind of your problem.