Jay DeMarcus Quotes

Especially in the Dixie Chicks, everyone wants you to play a role. Natalie was the feisty one. Martie was the nice one 'cause she smiles all the time onstage, and I was the quiet one.

In the beginning, the media was calling me a bad boy all the time because of the way I act and feel onstage. None of them have ever taken the time to get to know me when I climb offstage.

Music can kind of make you one-dimensional. People see what's on the surface and what you rap about, and they make their decision on who you are from there.

People don't expect me to make pop music.

I always laugh because people assume I love horror because I do a horror movie, but I'm not a huge horror fan.

Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn't have been more wrong.

I realize that R&B is what I do best, and I'm comfortable with that.

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.

Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium.

My actual intake of different substances was far below what people thought it was, no matter how weird or outrageous they think I am.

Personally, of course it's exasperating when people think you're just swanning around in Europe, going to the occasional fashion show and then being glamorous at a party.

People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist.

I mean people just have a way of - y'know they'll review your record in two sentences and put you in this little stupid box that you don't want to be in.

I was quite surprised how easily people wanted to pigeonhole things I've done.

I think I'm pretty misunderstood, because I'm not just about football.

Everyone knows a lot about me without actually knowing me at all.

I just think that the whole diva thing is a misrepresentation of who I am.

I don't know why people think I'm a Goth - that's a misconception.

I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.

I think for such a long time people had this misconception of who I was and what I was about.

I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.

I think it's easy for people to say, 'Because you do this, you must be this kind of person, vain or uptight or mean to people.' People have a sense of who you may be because of the job you do. That's unfair judgment.

There was an article about me once, and the first line was, 'It's good to be a gangster.' Well, I'm not a gangster. I'm an actor.

I'm not a down-in-the-dumps person. I think some people assume that I am because of the music I write.