Band Quote by Kristian Bush

'Sugarland Express' was pretty amazing.

— Janusz Kaminski

There's a social piece to what's going on in the Sugarland world, but we've never been a band that's political, and I maintain that.

— Kristian Bush

I was into all kinds of music as a teen - country music, because my dad was in a band that played country, and…

— Martina McBride

When I was around 13 years old, I started playing in bands and became obsessed with Blink-182 and Newfound Glory. I didn't pay attention…

— Cassadee Pope

We were derided as a boy band, with pop music and not really country.

— Jay DeMarcus

I was feeling really restless in my hard-rock band. I wanted to learn more about storytelling in music, and that's what country music is.

— Lindsey Haun

The Music was like Electric Sugar

— Tom Waits

We were so influenced not only by country music but by the rock bands of the '80s. Our focus was to bring in something…

— Jay DeMarcus

We'd started out as a garage band and it became like a huge band, which was fine. But everything was so magnified, drug addictions,…

— Izzy Stradlin

I came to town thinking that everybody had the same idea of what country music was that I did.

— Lee Ann Womack

I was a huge fan of this band called Sparks. It was a pretty good inauguration to music since their music is quite complex.…

— Johan Renck

I was in a lot of bands growing up.

— Jesse Andrews