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We try and get on the internet and check out sites about us. We read all the messages left for us. It's hard when we're traveling, but when we get the chance it's a lot of fun. We had a big input into what's on our site. We hope we do some cool stuff on it.~Isaac "We've ridden the concord a couple times and this lady comes up to me and goes,"Excuse me sir, would you like some caviar?" I'm like,"First of all, I don't like caviar. Second of all, it's eight o'clock in the freaking morning, for the love of God!" -Ike To other people our lives may seem a bit strange. But naturally we all think we're pretty normal.~Isaac "I'd have to say were a happy medium between The Simpsons and, unfortunately, The Waltons. We'er probably not as weird as The Addams Family." -Ike "If you hang out with some girl friend, it's going to be Isaac Hanson has a girlfriend on the front page."-Ike Everybody expresses themselves in different ways. Some people write it down, some people paint it. Some people express it in the way they speak. We just express our feelings through music.~Isaac "I used to be the goofiest, and then Zac just kind of took over." -Ike "Sometimes Zac's really quiet." -Ike "Singing is in our genes!" -Ike Math used to be my favorite subject. I'm still pretty good at algebra and math...but your love for math goes out the window!~Isaac You could say singing is in our genes. Both our parents sang and made up songs constantly.~Isaac Even though being a kid is kind of a carefree sort of thing for the most part, I guess there are definitely a lot of things that stick in kids' minds.~Isaac Some people make fun of Hanson. But you know what? I don't give a rip.~Isaac We just want to keep doing our music whether we sell one record or one million.~Isaac Nobody stays exactly the same. You'll definitely know it's Hanson, but we're constantly changing.~Isaac If you get caught up in all these kinds of things...those things are all superficial and it'll be gone just like that.~Isaac I must admit that I'm an absolutely hopeless romantic. I don't think theres anything better than a fantastic poem or just a romantic atmosphere. I think music is super romantic, too.~Isaac Zac's almost schizophrenic.~Isaac If I see a cool chick in the street, I'll watch her going by, won't I?~Isaac "I guess people look at the back of our hair and make an assumption." - Ike ”Zac orders us around more than we do - he's behind the drums and everything and he can control us . . . what we do." - Isaac "Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird." -Ike "Welcome to the land of Hanson! Where we poop just like everybody else!" -Ike "Pick-up lines never really work. I mean if you walk up to a girl and you go, 'Hey Baby, you're last name must be Gillette cuz you're the best a man can get.' I don't think that's good. She'd just laugh at you then slap you in the face and go 'Buh-bye loser.' You know?" -Ike "We've met a lot of really good friends who were fans to begin with and you can tell when fans are so obsessed with you that they wouldn't be able to concentrate on getting to know you.It's not hard to figure that out." - Ike "I'm not a fan of Barney..but I think that Elmo chick is pretty cute" -Ike "Last night we had an interesting water fight, trying to soak each other. I threw Tay in the shower and turned it on." -Isaac "Zac orders us around more than we do - he's behind the drums and everything and he can control us . . . what we do." - Isaac "Pamela Anderson is cute, but I like Jennifer Aniston, she looks like she'd be good fun." - Isaac "We love what we're doing and we want to keep doing that in our lives." - Isaac "They help me with girls, because I'm the one that needs it." - Ike "It's so cool to get to talk to fans, to find out where they're from and why they bought the records." - Isaac "If wholesome equals not constantly swearing, not talking derogatory about women, then in that case I guess we'll take wholesome." - Isaac "Pamela Anderson is cute,but I like Jennifer Aniston, she looks like she'd be good fun." -Isaac "We have a great relationship with each other. We're best friends, basically." -- Isaac "I think that any musician will tell you that you have to love music in order to do it." -- Isaac "You have your brief days and you have your boxer days." - Ike "Our grandma, she was kind of close to dying and one night Tay went up and started playing some chords and we heard him from our room....and went up and he’d started playing this thing and we finished it off and dedicated it to our grandma.~Ike "Yeah, we wrote three Christmas songs on that, a song called Everybody Knows The Claus which is kinda like, it’s kinda funky almost, you know it’s got this, serious guitar groove. And a song called ‘At Christmas’ which is just, kind of a, Christmas ballad."~Ike "Taylor's very good at being sneaky." ~Ike "I think of the three of us as a cross between 'The Simpsons,' 'The Addams Family,' and 'The Brady Bunch." ~Ike “We love London. The first time we came here our record company took us out to see the sights and we were like, 'Oooh.' We just thought Big Ben appeared on postcards." ~Ike "Compared to me and Zac, Taylor is a little more softly spoken. He has a really good sense of humor, well he laughs at my jokes anyway..."~Ike "Let's see, I missed out on getting dumped by about 10 million girls, getting beat up by bullies and peer preassure." -Isaac (when asked if he regrets not going to public school) "I used to be the goofiest, and then Zac just kind of took over." -Isaac "We're not worrying about what other bands are doing. We do what we do. They do what they do." -Isaac "We know some people will automatically be biased toward our age, but we take our music very seriously, and hopefully, we'll have a very broad audience." -Isaac "Many people make fun of Hanson, but I don't give a rip" -- Ike "Oh ok, kool..so um..blah blah blah blah..blah blah blah" Ike "Omigosh, Sears is having a sale!" -Isaac "The nice thing about England is they actually speak English." -Isaac "We're allowed to date,but the girlfriend thing probably wouldn't be a good idea. A girl would probably not want to deal with me." -Isaac "We know that the kind of success we're having may not last forever. Success can go as fast as it comes. We all realize that. Anyone who doesn't realize that is in trouble because they could lose touch with reality." -Isaac "I guess people just take a look at the back of our heads and make assumptions."~Ike "sorry i screwed up." ~Ike "No Way! What's the point of having a girlfriend when you're as busy as we are? I like girls, but i've still got a few years to go before I have to worry about that serious love stuff! Some guy once came up to me and said, " You gonna marry my sister?", and I said, " Yeah, when i'm 81". ~Ike "Yeah, I would go to Juvie instead of real prison!" ~Ike "It can be a bit scary when 20 or 30 people are running at your car." ~Ike "Its eight o'clock in freakin' morning...for the love of God" ~Ike "I'm a romantic fool -- I always end up getting hurt." ~Ike "I went to a concert with my family. This girl and I hit it off rather too well and I got in trouble for holding her hand." ~Ike "None of us has a girlfriend, but being in a band, you meet people everywhere you go. I know mine will turn up one day." ~Ike "Brunettes are cool!" ~Ike "We know that the kind of success we're having may not last forever. Success can go as fast as it comes, and we all realize that. Anyone who doesn't is in trouble because they can lose touch with reality." ~Ike "I am a romantic fool..I always end up getting hurt!" ~ Ike "I mean some people don't like Hanson, but I don't give a rip!." ~Ike "I'm trying to be neater...our room looks like we've trashed it even though we haven't." ~Ike "Just b/c you earn a bit of $ doesn't mean you have to buy a gigantoid house and fast cars." ~Ike "It would be important for someone to understand how much our music means to us. Our music comes first right now and, hopefully, forever." -Isaac "Girls are so cute. They write letters all the time telling us they love us, but I also get a lot of letters from young guy fans, and weirdos as well." ~Ike
"Ike thinks about girls ALL the time" ~Taylor "The girls aren't screaming at you. They're screaming at the fact you're in a band and they hear you on the radio. It's not like you're special." ~Tay "Music is unavoidable in our house." ~Taylor "People are really wild. They write these fantasies about how they met us, how they did this with us or that with us - these complete elaborations - like it really happened!" ~Taylor (on fan fiction) "I am a guy but i am NOT going to pull my pants down to prove it!" ~Taylor "You guys are so loud it's painful!!!" ~Taylor "We're on vacation, looking for the world's largest rodents, HOLY WOW!!" ~Taylor "How much better a job could you possibly have than to be in a bandfor your whole life?" ~Taylor "How much better a job could you possibly have than to be in a bandfor your whole life?" ~Taylor "It's great being good friends with your brothers.Then you've got friends for life." ~Taylor "We fight over things, like who has the TV Remote Control, and it's usually Zac [who gets it]. No one messes with him or he'll go crazy." ~Tay "There's 3 brothers that enjoyb hanging out with each other who love what they're doing. That's just who we are. We're just normal guys having fun with it." -Taylor "You have to know what you want and keep going for it" ~Taylor "You have to like yourself before you can do anything!" ~Taylor "We read our fan mail-whenever we can.We love reading the mail!" ~Taylor "Everything Changes" ~Taylor "If a cute girl was being bullied, I'm a fighter." ~Tay "Our parents are completely behind us and they always have been. They've always said, "You can stop if you want to and we'll be totally behind you." I think their best advice is 'You have to love it." -Taylor "I got a bruise on my back from ike knocking me with his elbow." ~Tay "Music was unavoidable in our house." ~Taylor "Getting your license gives you the right to pick your nose in the car." ~Tay "Our family's ethinic background is Danish.That explains our love for Lego!" ~Taylor "Getting your license gives you the right to pick your nose in the car." ~Tay "Music can't be about fame and money or any of that stuff. You really have to luv it." -Taylor "I think the Bee Gees have stayed on top because they're dressed in such tight pants." ~Tay "Sometimes you wake up and go 'Hey, what day is it?'" ~Tay "However you want to do it, it's your own game" -- Tay "The coolest thing about our fans is that they're devoted...but psycho." - Taylor "Sometimes it feels like the girls aren't screaming at us; they're screaming at some band called Hanson they saw on TV." ~Tay "Everybody has their own opinion, that's part of life. It's fine, you know?" -Taylor (on Hanson haters) "Actually, my voice is pretty much done changing, but it was pretty bad when we were making the album." -Taylor "Sometimes it feels like the girls aren't screaming at us. They're screaming at some band called Hanson they saw on TV." -Taylor "Memories (pretend he's crying)" -- Tay "If somebody's obsessed with you, It would be kind of hard to go out with her.You'd take her hand and she'd scream! But if she was nice enough, yeah, I'd date a fan." -Taylor "How much better of a job could you possibly have than to be in a band for the rest of your whole life?" -Taylor "I might be one wild rock 'n' roller... but you wouldn't catch me peeing in public" -Taylor "I'm not a girl but I won't pull my pants down to prove it." -Taylor "I wouldn't say we opened the door of pop music again. I'd say music opened it and we were allowed to get in." -Taylor "We were coming out of a radio station, and there were about 2,000 people outside this station, and this 40-year-old woman jumps and grabs at my hair! I'm going, 'Have some control, woman!'" - Taylor "I used to be able to say 'great Dr. Pepper taste' in a burp" -- Taylor on his hidden talent "Part of what Hanson is, is that there's notjust one guy who sinds. Having three voices is what makes us Hanson" -- Taylor "Put is this way: We got the drums and the instruments and a week later we playedlive. But that doesn't mean we were good when we layedlive, it just means we got out there and did it." -- Taylor "There was an outdoor barbecue going on and all these industry people were there. We would just walk up to them and say 'Can we sing for you'" - Taylor "He (Isaac) wrote his first song in Ecuador, on a small electric keyboard. The song was about the people on the streets; the poverty of where we were." - Taylor "We're three guys who write, play, and sing our music... That's what Hanson is." - Taylor "I think it's simply great how you can give free-reign to your imagination when you draw. You can turn your dreams into shapes and colors, and that's what I find interesting about drawing." - Taylor "It is the message. Not the messanger. " - Taylor "I always want to tell people off who don't do their job right, but I never do. We're always saying we will shout at someone but we wimp out." - Taylor "Everyone was staring at us and pointing and we felt like freaks in a zoo." - Taylor "If there's a bully and he's beating up on a really cute girl, I'm a fighter." - Taylor "If I saw a band like this, the first thing I would say is FAKE! They were put together." - Taylor "We don't drink any pop because you know what that means...Pimples!" - Taylor "If there's a girl who's a fan and she's a bit crazy, you are not going to go out with her." - Taylor "We're not doing this because we want girls to scream at us, but they can scream if they want!" - Taylor "Zac's got some really deep songs."- Taylor "We get a laugh from dropping waterbombs out of windows. It's innocent fun and we don't mean anything by it." - Taylor "Zac is the funny one, the crazy one, the insane one. He's very cool onstage. He's also got some sad, deep songs where you go, 'How old is he?'" - Taylor "We get a laugh from dropping waterbombs out of windows. It's innocent fun and we don't mean anything by it." - Taylor "I think there is a chemistry bewteen two people, and no one can explain it. The two may have nothing in common, but they just like each other. It's mother nature taking its course."~Taylor "Sometimes I go away and just write a poem or even a song. Lots of people think that we only deal with situations in our songs which we've experienced ourselves, but that's not true. The songs I write are about my dreams and wishes, too." ~Taylor "Listen to the music and forget about how young we are...forget that we have long blond hair and blue eyes...it's just the music."~Taylor "We get along pretty well. We're not like Oasis. We don't fight all the time." - Taylor "I often go off into my own little world. At least that's what Isaac and Zac say. There is some truth in it, though. I like to think very carefully about everything. For this I need peace and qiet so that I can really 'catch up' with myself again.But even when I can't be alone it isn't difficult for me to swtich off- that's when my brothers always say I'm in my little 'Taylor World' again."~Taylor "It may not be fun at the time, but if cameras follow you around everywhere, the minute that ends, you'll wish it was there."~Taylor "We're weird in a way, it's not every kid who sings with his brothers for a living." - Taylor "There's a weird fact that if you dropped a penny off the Empire State building in New York you'd kill someone. I feel really bad 'cause I dropped a nickel off it once." ~ Taylor "Zac is the funny one, the crazy one, the insane one. He's very cool onstage. He's also got some sad, deep songs where you go, 'How old is he?'" - Taylor. "We wrote a lullabye for our little brother. It woke him up!" - Taylor "I think life is more nerve wracking than performing in front of people."~Taylor "Zac's got some really deep songs."- Taylor. "As we're getting older, we've been having problems with these gray hairs back here."~Taylor "That's the coolest thing - seeing people react when you play live." - Taylor "I tap on everything, all the time. It annoys people." - Taylor "The worst thing we've done is loogieing (spitting) on people from hotel balconies. I hit someone the other day - that was pretty cool!" - Taylor "It's not like we're these child geniuses who woke up one morning suddenly able to write good songs." - Taylor "If Avery joined the band, she'd take over"~Taylor "For us, it's not about sex and drugs, it's about rock and roll." - Taylor
"The only people who say we look like girls are the ones who lost their girlfriend because they like our band." ~Zac "Let me speak!!!!!!!" ~Zac "I was trying to teach them {ike and tay} gymnastics" ~Zac "The first time i saw the video for MMMBop I said look at that cute girl!" ~Zac "Ike is a girl charmer. He'll always say nice things to girls. It's just a thing he does." ~Zac "An 11-year-old having a girlfriend? I might as well have a friend who is just a girl because I'm going to do the same thing. I'm not going to [he makes kissy faces and smooching noises]." ~Zac "I'm the drummer! I'll do what ever I want!" ~Zac "One guy asked me if I'd been abducted...yeah right!?!" ~Zac "Who do we look up to? We look up to, usually, the people who are tall, you know usually about 6 foot 2 up!" ~Zac "I think everybody is tired of being sad" ~Zac "I guess I'm a natural drummer!" ~Zac "I'm goofy stupid" He addmited that to MTV ~Zac "I find it weird when fans scream at us cuz the want to meet us!" ~Zac "How can we break up?We're brothers!" ~Zac "What is there to fear?You just go and do it!" ~Zac "It's a three, yes it's a three, just a three. A THREE!" ~ZAC "There like my best friends,only bester" ~Zac "we got addicted, addicted to legos!" ~zac "All you can do is make the music the best you can." ~Zac "I cannot betray a song. We love all the songs(we sing). They're all too valuable." ~Zac "Just a little bit........uh huh" ~Zac "Oh my god.......holy schnikes!" ~Zac "We're best friends, only bester!" -Zac "You can't expect success, you can only hope for it." -Zac "When we first started playing instruments, we weren't doing very much-just simple stuff. Bang, bang, bang!" -Zac "We were writing songs about girls when we still thought girls had cooties." -Zac "I'm still looking for a girlfriend. I just don't think I've met the right one yet. Maybe someday." -Zac "Girls are just like icing on the cake, or music is like a hot dog and the girls are the condiments. Life is like a twinkie and girls are the sticky white stuff inside." -Zac "I think it's probably actually that I'm so shy that I just act wacky to make up [for it]." -Zac "You want to see something, do ya?" -Zac "Look at that cute girl. No wait! It's me!" -Zac "Just a three, a three, yes it's a three!!!" -- Zac "I'm Zac man!!! Dun Dun DUn Dun!!!!" -- Zac "Maybe some day some grandpa will say......Hey I saw them when they were 3!" ~Zac
"When we first started playing our instruments we were just doing
simple stuff...bang, bang, bang! - Zac
"We're the long-haired guys that look like girls!" ~Zac
"If you run, they'll chase you. If you don't run, you're dead." ~Zac
"When you start feeling really tired and you start looking like a
raccoon, you know you need a week's break." ~Zac
"If fans say they don't like us anymore, that's just life." ~Zac
"I go to the mental hospital every few weeks and they do a check
up." ~Zac
"Someone needs to invent a portable washing machine!" ~Zac
"We were in New York, in a van, and we were jumping out and Ike
was the last out and he goes, 'Hey guys! STOP! Turn up the radio!' and there it was. And
one of the cool things is sometimes even if the radio almost isn't on, you'll go, 'Turn up
the radio' and it'll be 'MmmBop'." ~Zac
"When you watch a movie, if it didn't have music, it would probably
be a bad movie!" ~Zac
"And the other thing is it's a misconception that, ya know, your voice
changes and then it stops, but your voice is changing until your 21!" ~Zac
"Yeah, I'm into Chris Farley..hey, if you're watching, I wanna
meetcha!" ~Zac
"It's kind of a question for you to answer...What is the middle of
nowhere? What do you want to know? Maybe it's the middle of a desert...maybe it's
Mars..maybe it's Albertane..I do not know because I am weird!" ~Zac
"We have these special needles and if we get big heads, we just like,
pop 'em!" ~Zac
"Female, that's good. Normal, not alien. Human, no neosapiens. No
Harry Conicks!" ~Zac
"Mmm yeah...if our name was Fotherington-Smythe, I think we
would name the band that." ~Zac
"I don't know. The president is the president, but Cindy Crawford is
very cool and is awesome to meet. But he's the president. He's like the second most
powerful man in thw world." The first being..? "Um, I have no idea...wait, me!" ~Zac
"I imagine that being in love with a girl is something very special. I
haven't experienced the famous butterflies-in-the-stomach yet, but I think I still got
enough time for that." ~Zac
"People are people, age is irrelevant. Some of my best friends are
way older than me and we have a good time together." ~Zac
"The time I was playing the drums and I had my eyes closed. I was
getting really into it when the stool slipped and I ended up lying on my back with my feet
up in the air."~Zac
"On one of the first shows for the Middle of Nowhere tour both Tay
and I got sick. It's very easy to get sick when you're meeting so many people." ~Zac
"The whole Hanson family went shopping. We all went to the big
Doc Marten shoe store in London and we all bought some boots. So every time you come
into our hotel room, all you can see is different-colored boots everywhere!" ~Zac
"We would make up simple tunes to guitar and sing around the
table." - Zac
"One guy asked me if I'd been abducted (by aliens). Yeah, right!" -
Zac
"I've got the moves." - Zac
"There was no alien abduction. I've never had a close encounter. But
who knows? A lot of weird things go on. Maybe I could have been an alien in a past
life."~Zac
"Wow, I was so proud of that thing! Up until then all I'd done was
click my fingers to the beat when we did a gig. I was so happy to have a proper
drum kit." ~Zac
"I would definitely say we've had to mature a little bit. Because
we're doing business. We have a job. This is what we do -- it's not like we
can goof off all the time."~Zac
"Ike and Tay aren't usually worried about it. I'm the one who usually
backs out. I may think I want to go on a ride, and then when I'm
actually at the top about to do it, I change my mind and shout, 'Oh my
God, what am I doing?' "~Zac
"It wasn't like - do this, or do this- we didn't have to do anything. We
could just sit on our rears and watch TV for the rest of lives until we
had to get a job."~Zac
"I have my fun, but nobody gets hurt. I get a few laughs, a few pets
might freak out, because we're running around like freaks, but that's
about it."~Zac
"I've got one about a frog, one about an alligator, and one about a
mushroom, called Mushroom In The Garden." - Zac
"We met the Spice Girls and we really liked them. Geri's quite small
without her platform shoes on. I'll probably out-grow her in a few months time!" -
Zac
""I don't tend to get girls as fans. I just get all the young guys and
weirdos." - Zac
"I believe that laughter is the best medicine. A good laugh gets your
adrenaline pumping and you feel so much better, even if you're in a
serious situation."~Zac
"You don't have to be 84 to write good lyrics.You don't have to be
32 to experience things."~Zac
"I've never kissed a girl, but I do think about it." - Zac
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