Emily Robison Quotes

I've established this kind of wild persona and these redneck party songs and a live show that's kind of rowdy, but I don't want people to think that's what I'm all about.

We've got the pretty-boy lead singer and the fat, dumpy drummer, and I'm the zany guitarist. Sure, we've played up the image at times. But it's the music that matters most.

Not everybody in the country-music community is like me - I just happen to be one of the guys that is stereotypical.

If I don't terrorize, I'm not Pop.

I just feel as though it's become a situation where people have manifested this caricature of who I am, and they act as if there's no real person inside of it.

A person's portrayal on TV isn't always how someone is.

Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty.

Actually, the curious thing is that the more you become a subject of admiration or loathing, the more you're examined under a microscope, the distance seems to open up between who you really are and the portrayals that people impose on you.

I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't look like a bunch of guys who, you know, should be in a library studying for their finals.

I'm always kind of surprised how much I'm associated with country music.

We used to have massively long discussions about how we should stand on stage. Should we stand with our legs apart? No, all the guys with guitars in skinny jeans stand with their legs apart, and you'd think, 'We can't stand like that.' We'd spend hours and hours, days and days, discussing how to stand.

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

I don't know why I have been branded a glam doll.

I knew I had to be the gay stereotype that was on the front of the papers every day. And I did my job well. I played the game.

When I was in my former band Downhere, I did everything I could not to remind people of Freddie Mercury, but it became almost hilarious how many people compared me to him to the point where it felt like it was working against the band when we tested singles at radio.

Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can't help it, but, it is troubling.

How do I play the princess thing? I don't, really. I don't like talking about it much and find it annoying when people say things like, 'Oh, you're the princess.' One of my best friends jokingly says, 'Hi, Princess,' and I say, 'Shut up.' It is one of the things that bugs me most in the world.

I've never been the attention-getter of Black Eyed Peas.

I think our live shows dispelled any misconceptions people had about us. When you come see us live, you know we're anything but a boy band.

Everyone thinks I am exactly like the characters I play.

I am not the 'Count' that has been portrayed in the media.

Oh, my God, I would be the most uncool band member, ever.

I'm one of those controversial celebs or whatever you want to call it, but I am actually a musician - people forget this.

Artistes never make their image. Image is made by the fans and the artiste's job is to fight that perception.

I don't think a lot of people know what a real artist I am. I don't think they know I write my own music.