Mark McGrath Quotes

As a lead singer, all I want to do is be in my own head and think about how great I am. That's a lead singer's disease.

I can answer anything about any American pop culture song ever.

Whether it's five people or 50,000 people, I always love to perform and feel very blessed that I'm able to do that.

When you become a commodity to a record label because you're making them millions of dollars, you can take all of your artistic integrity and throw it out the window.

You know how it is with drawers and labels in the music business. They don't want anything to be complicated. They just want it simple, as simple as possible.

I love to perform. I've never lost the urge. I've never once been on stage when I didn't want to be.

Acting is something where you have to completely remove yourself. So, do I find acting easy? Absolutely no! Do I want to do more of it? Do I enjoy doing it? Do I feel appreciative to get this opportunity? Absolutely!

Of course, we wrote the songs accordingly and performed and recorded them that way. At that time, we really thought it was right, but you know, seen in retrospect, it made the album sound forced, and not really great.

You can make low-budget film as long as there is something compelling about the characters. There is a believability in the chemistry and a likeability amongst the characters.

None of the original love and feel for going on stage is gone. I'm not a true singer. I'm performer, and I need to be on stage.

Today they're praising you sky high, place you on a pedestal and tomorrow they don't want to know you.

With acting, there are a lot of subtleties and non-verbals involved. If someone is over there, getting eaten by a shark, there's a non-verbal way of how to act that. There's a certain nuance to acting that does not come intuitively to me. It's something I still have to learn.

I'm really fed up with all the credibility talk. A lot of times it seems to be more important than the music. Well, I guess for a lot of people it actually is. We don't care for credibility.

I never really thought we'd fitted into the cross-over drawer. But I think the real Sugar Ray fans did like us because we always had variety and because we experimented a lot.

When I go to karaoke, I'm still the worst guy there.

We were kind of caught up in the genre trap. We didn't really have a lot of artistic freedom. They wanted us to go into a certain direction, so they could promote us easier.

As a performer, I want to hit the last row of the arena. I want to make big moves. I'm a spaz, naturally.

All we did was to sit around, collect some ideas, wait and see what's going to happen. That was it.

I really do hope that the people will like 14:59. The critics seem to like it. We got a lot of good reviews.

It's funny; we never had anything like credibility. Even though we all have some sort of punk-rock background, but so what? I really don't care about that. What's credibility anyway? Who has credibility?

You know, I'm not real tall. I'm 6'0, 6'½, but I think people think I'm shorter than I am because I'm not the most muscular cat in the world.