Isaac Hanson Quotes
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As much as we were very proud of being a pop band, I know we never felt like we fit into that category.
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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.'
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We have a good time and try not to kill each other.
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There's something extraordinary about selling millions and millions of albums.
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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.
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You can call Hanson a whole lot of things, but hip-hop isn't one of them.
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Taylor being married and so on, that does evolve the dynamic on the road.
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Careers are like roller coasters. You go up, you go down, and you spin yourself around.
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There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album.
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I want my kids to know that what I do is work. It's fun, it's a great job, but it's work.
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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.
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Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.
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The only way that you can ever continue to have a career and have success and have hits is if you are honest to yourself in the same way that you were in the beginning.
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Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me.
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As an artist or musician, you want to be remembered for the music you make.
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I feel like, in some level, in our biggest moments of success we were always the underdog.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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The artist-audience relationship is the most valuable thing, and anything you can do to fuel the long-term potential of that relationship is of value to you.
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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.
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What's really important is that all we ever were was a band. And all we ever wanted to be was a band.
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Luckily, I'm in a band with two other guys who really pull their own weight and have the skills and abilities to compensate for my weaknesses.
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We've done enough - and made enough mistakes - to pretty well know how to guide our careers ourselves.