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Mark McGrath is an American musician, singer, and television host best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Sugar Ray. McGrath's charismatic stage presence and catchy pop-rock hits, such as "Fly" and "Every Morning," brought the band to mainstream success in the late 1990s. In addition to his music career, McGrath has appeared on various television shows, further establishing himself as a pop culture personality.
"I never really thought we'd fitted into the cross-over drawer. But I think the real Sugar Ray fans did like us because we always had variety and because we experimented a lot."
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"I never really thought we'd fitted into the cross-over drawer. But I think the real Sugar Ray fans did like us because we always had variety and because we experimented a lot."

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"It's funny; we never had anything like credibility. Even though we all have some sort of punk-rock background, but so what? I really don't care about that. What's credibility anyway? Who has credibility?"
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"It's funny; we never had anything like credibility. Even though we all have some sort of punk-rock background, but so what? I really don't care about that. What's credibility anyway? Who has credibility?"

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"We were kind of caught up in the genre trap. We didn't really have a lot of artistic freedom. They wanted us to go into a certain direction, so they could promote us easier."
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"We were kind of caught up in the genre trap. We didn't really have a lot of artistic freedom. They wanted us to go into a certain direction, so they could promote us easier."

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"Of course, we wrote the songs accordingly and performed and recorded them that way. At that time, we really thought it was right, but you know, seen in retrospect, it made the album sound forced, and not really great."
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"Of course, we wrote the songs accordingly and performed and recorded them that way. At that time, we really thought it was right, but you know, seen in retrospect, it made the album sound forced, and not really great."

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"You know how it is with drawers and labels in the music business. They don't want anything to be complicated. They just want it simple, as simple as possible."
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"You know how it is with drawers and labels in the music business. They don't want anything to be complicated. They just want it simple, as simple as possible."

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"Today they're praising you sky high, place you on a pedestal and tomorrow they don't want to know you."
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"Today they're praising you sky high, place you on a pedestal and tomorrow they don't want to know you."

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"I'm really fed up with all the credibility talk. A lot of times it seems to be more important than the music. Well, I guess for a lot of people it actually is. We don't care for credibility."
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"I'm really fed up with all the credibility talk. A lot of times it seems to be more important than the music. Well, I guess for a lot of people it actually is. We don't care for credibility."

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"There are a lot of people out there who are just waiting that we fail. They brought up the theory that we're one-hit wonders and they want us to fall flat on our noses, just to prove them right."
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"There are a lot of people out there who are just waiting that we fail. They brought up the theory that we're one-hit wonders and they want us to fall flat on our noses, just to prove them right."

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"All we did was to sit around, collect some ideas, wait and see what's going to happen. That was it."
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"All we did was to sit around, collect some ideas, wait and see what's going to happen. That was it."

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"I really do hope that the people will like 14:59. The critics seem to like it. We got a lot of good reviews."
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"I really do hope that the people will like 14:59. The critics seem to like it. We got a lot of good reviews."

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