"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."
"I'm the worst critic about music myself. I hardly ever, ever like something the first time I listen to it."
"Of course I always knew 'We Will Rock You' and 'We Are The Champions' and all those. But my real introduction to Queen the band and knowing who they were was the movie 'Wayne's World' like a lot of people in my generation."
"I know how limited and how fleeting fame is, so I just try not to get excited about it, honestly."
"People have been telling me for years that I sound like Freddie Mercury."
"It's not like I'm pretending to be Freddie Mercury."
"My mom is the piano player in my dad's church - she's also the choir director - and she's just a musician through and through."
"I always loved music - it was always in the house - and my younger brother is musical, too."
"I grew up on a lot of gospel music."
"I was born in '76, but I didn't get into rock until the early '90s when the grunge stuff started coming out."
"I ended up taking piano lessons at a really young age, I took, like, years of piano lessons, and I always loved to sing."
"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."
"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."
"Being a professional musician with Downhere for 11 years now, I feel completely at home on stage."
"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."
"'Bohemian Rhapsody' is my all-time favorite."
"Rock and roll reaches people because it's honest and doesn't shy away from the issues."
"Freddie Mercury wrote songs that were real and true."
"I immediately recognised that Freddy's vocal chords bore an uncanny resemblance to mine - or vice-versa, I guess - and yeah, the rest is history."
"That was how I had developed my singing style in the first place - imitating other singers like George Michael and Richard Marx."
"Everyone has their own tastes. Some people want to feel like it's Queen onstage, including the dress-up thing, but that's not my style. I do know some people love that and wish I would do it, but I have no interest in that."
"It sure is cool that I was mentioned in 'Rolling Stone.'"
"People would come up to me, saying, 'You sound a lot like the lead singer from Queen.' I started wondering, 'Who is this guy making me sound so unoriginal?'"
"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."
"The stuff that's good is the stuff that lives on."
