Marc Martel

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

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 style. I do know some people love that and wish I would do it, but I have no interest in that.

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

I ended up taking piano lessons at a really young age, I took, like, years of piano lessons, and I always loved to sing.

The stuff that's good is the stuff that lives on.

My biggest influences when I was a kid - I listened to a lot of top 40 radio, so whatever the big artists were, so, like, the mid-'80s.

My favorite thing about the Ultimate Queen Celebration is that we're not afraid to explore a non-traditional Queen set list.

People would come up to me, saying, 'You sound a lot like the lead singer from Queen.' I started wondering, 'Who is this guy making me sound so unoriginal?'

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

If the Christian community responds to our music better because maybe we gained a little more credibility in the mainstream, then it's not ideal, it's not fun, it's not sexy, but I'll take it.

Freddie Mercury wrote songs that were real and true.

I think people tend to cling to music when times are hard.