Hanson Quotes
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We've always been proud of what we've done.
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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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Careers are like roller coasters. You go up, you go down, and you spin yourself around.
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I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents. It is an incredibly inspiring and challenging job being a parent, and as it turns out, being young really helps you keep up.
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'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.
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As an artist or musician, you want to be remembered for the music you make.
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Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.
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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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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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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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You can call Hanson a whole lot of things, but hip-hop isn't one of them.
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The Tinted Windows shows were very fun but it's very different for me as a performer. I'm not playing music - I'm just singing and I missed that. I miss rocking out on keys, drums, guitar... whatever it is.
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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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There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album.
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We have a good time and try not to kill each other.
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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'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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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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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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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 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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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 said from the very beginning that we're in this for the long haul.
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It would be nice to have radio support, not that we've ever had that much trouble with it.
