Everybody has their ups and downs, and that's what makes you tougher.
Isaac Hanson
Everybody has their demons; everyone has their challenges.
Don't misunderstand good manners for passivity.
Eventually, the bad boy image affects fans' willingness to show up.
Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.
There's something extraordinary about selling millions and millions of albums.
Our parents were really, really grounded people but also really ambitious people, meaning they saw our ambition and were willing to help us chase it.
'MMMbop' ultimately is about trying to see the positive in the negative, trying to see the positive relationships you'll have the in the face of challenge and strife.
What we do every night is we change out the set list as much as we can to make sure that (fans can) go home and tell their friends they experienced something unique and cool.
Oklahoma is very entrepreneurial.
I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
As much as we were very proud of being a pop band, I know we never felt like we fit into that category.
A lot of potential scenarios create challenges. It's all about how you grew up, values instilled in you.
Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me.
I have a hard time with musicians who act like pricks because it just makes me mad. I just sit there and I go, 'You know what, dude, no matter whether you're in a band just surviving or you're in a bus playing stadiums, one way or another, you're still among the rare breed of people that are actually getting paid to do it.'
For better or worse, we have evolved for sure, but we've also maintained a certain core about who we are, which is we were raised on late '50s and early '60s rock n' roll and R&B, and you can always hear that throughout. And that's just always been who we were. As much as we've evolved, that's stayed the same.
I've got angels watching out for me.
Our first manager really pushed that we not sell our publishing rights, which is one of the earliest things an artist will do: They'll sell in order to get a cash advance.
'MMMBop' took about a year to actually get completed. The chorus idea had really been around for a long time, and then we built the song around it.
You can call Hanson a whole lot of things, but hip-hop isn't one of them.
Working with Yahoo! allows us to give our fans a chance to listen to our songs, check out the video, purchase our new album, win tickets to our show, and chat with us all in one place.
Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that 'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Mmmbop' and 'Where Is the Love' are good places to start for us. I don't think it's a bad place.
We can do things that are very, very simple to us that can have a huge impact on others.
Our songs all carry the same way.
There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album.
Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.
Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.
I'm a bit of a hothead in certain circumstances, but you've got to temper it because your fans are there, and they've paid good money to see a show.
We have a good time and try not to kill each other.
Ultimately, our goal was to be a band and be recognized for our songs and making records. And I think that has been the case.
It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
I don't get sick of 'MMMBop' in any way shape or form, and I don't know why I would.
No matter what, I will always hope for that day when I look around and can say, 'Oh yeah, I wrote a song that touched me emotionally the way that a song like 'She's Got A Way,' by Billy Joel did.'
I was totally offended when people said we were like *Nsync. I've got nothing against them. I know those guys. But comparing us was lame. It was apples and oranges.
Yes it was we, are a few years back parted from our record company and took the album that we were making with them and released it independently in the United States had a number one Independent debut in the United States.
We pushed our first record, 'Boomerang,' to different labels, but it was hard for them to see though the 'white guys singing R&B' thing.
We've sold over 100,000 records so far, and we're an independent label.
We said from the very beginning that we're in this for the long haul.
There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.
The most creative person is not the person who can come up with the best idea; it's the one who can take that group of things on the table and assemble them in the greatest multiple of unique ways.
When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.
Hanson will be associated with 'MMMBop' and long blonde hair in the same way the Beatles are associated with mop tops and suits.
People often ask us if we had direct influences. Honestly, just a lot of different music - not necessarily individual people. We listen to anything from Bob Dylan to Massive Attack to Aerosmith to En Vogue. We very much enjoy all that music.
The premise of anything you do - whether it's writing a song or any business - is ultimately that it hinges heavily on your belief in the thing that you're doing and promoting and selling. It's a reflection of who you are in a very deep way.
I'm a proud family man.
I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
It's hard to complain when you say, 'We're gonna go to the clip where Helen Hunt and Will Ferrell are on 'Saturday Night Live' making fun of your song.'
When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
Texas is a pretty free state.
