Marc Martel

You're a musician and you live and die by people responding to your music. It's a business just like anything else and…

— Marc Martel

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

— Marc Martel

Being compared to Freddie Mercury is something I've come to terms with. I don't know that I'll ever successfully avoid the comparisons,…

— Marc Martel

My favorite song to perform is 'Love of my Life.'

— Marc Martel

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

— Marc Martel

People would come up to me, saying, 'You sound a lot like the lead singer from Queen.' I started wondering, 'Who is…

— Marc Martel

If the Christian community responds to our music better because maybe we gained a little more credibility in the mainstream, then it's…

— Marc Martel

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

— Marc Martel

'Bohemian Rhapsody' is my all-time favorite.

— Marc Martel

No band has two hours' worth of greatest hits, but Queen comes close.

— Marc Martel

Rock and roll reaches people because it's honest and doesn't shy away from the issues.

— Marc Martel

The name Downhere comes from a song I wrote after a friend of mine died in college, and it was kind of…

— Marc Martel

My biggest influences when I was a kid - I listened to a lot of top 40 radio, so whatever the big…

— Marc Martel

Honestly, 198,9 I was 12 or 13 years old and primed for the new boy band thing. This guy Jordan Knight sounded…

— Marc Martel

Being a professional musician with Downhere for 11 years now, I feel completely at home on stage.

— Marc Martel

I grew up on a lot of gospel music.

— Marc Martel

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…

— Marc Martel

The Ultimate Queen Celebration is a little bit different. I take liberties with the amount of songs in the set that aren't…

— Marc Martel

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

— Marc Martel

Of course I always knew 'We Will Rock You' and 'We Are The Champions' and all those. But my real introduction to…

— Marc Martel

I was born in '76, but I didn't get into rock until the early '90s when the grunge stuff started coming out.

— Marc Martel

I know at the back of my mind that there's no way I can please everybody, so I still just have to…

— Marc Martel

Rock n' roll is the music where you can get away with pretty much saying everything, and it's OK. You can say…

— Marc Martel

It's not like I'm pretending to be Freddie Mercury.

— Marc Martel

Stylistically speaking, 'Paradise' is a Jekyll & Hyde song.

— Marc Martel