Affected Quote by A. J. McLean

We were never a boy band. We always had much more to offer than that, I thought.

— Morten Harket

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

— Jay DeMarcus

We thought being in a boy band was like the coolest thing ever. And this is before I even knew I could sing. I…

— Benson Boone

I used to think when I was in the Go-Go's that we were as wild as any of the boy bands.

— Jane Wiedlin

I guess we share some traits with different boy bands. But we are boys in a band.

— Calum Hood

I've never seen a boy band that had members who look like us - kids of color from all over the world - and…

— Kevin Abstract

We've been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands?

— Jon Bon Jovi

I went to a boys' school, and I didn't realize that most guys join bands because they wanted to get girls. I was not…

— Thom Yorke

I always wanted to be in a boy band since I was a kid.

— Olly Murs

I think that boy bands as a whole are really coming back.

— Carlos Pena, Jr

Europe were kind of the first ones to embrace my music; the kids from around the way would come out to my shows and…

— Theophilus London

People have been introduced to our band in so many ways. Whether we were playing at their college or we were the record that…

— Ed Robertson