107 Quotes by Jay DeMarcus

When you do an arena show, and the lights have to sync up to the sound, and the sound has to sync up to the music, and all of that - things are really mapped out, and you lose some of that spontaneity.

There's nothing worse than looking out and seeing some guy with his arms crossed while you're singing your heart out on a new song, and he's going, 'When are they going to do 'Me and My Gang?''

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.

We love touring. We love being in front of the fans.

It caught us by surprise when people started calling us a boy band because we'd always considered ourselves pretty serious musicians.

I'm surprised at the loyalty of the country music fan. People that started out with us at 'Prayin' for Daylight' still come to multiple shows a year.

We do pretty much the same set list every night, and the show's down to certain cues because we have video and all this production and lights and everything going on.

We've always prided ourselves on putting together a great live show. That's something that means a lot to us because our bread and butter is the live tour.

You start to compete with yourself when your catalog gets bigger and bigger... I mean, everybody wants the next 'Bless the Broken Road,' but you don't write those every day, so it's difficult.