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" Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves. "
Think
Themselves
Artists
" A lot of potential scenarios create challenges. It's all about how you grew up, values instilled in you. "
Up
Potential
Challenges
" As an artist or musician, you want to be remembered for the music you make. "
Music
Remembered
Want
" As much as we were very proud of being a pop band, I know we never felt like we fit into that category. "
Know
Proud
Never
" At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love. "
Business
Turn
Point
" Being an entrepreneur means being a creative businessperson. "
Means
Creative
Being
" Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast. "
Great
End
Day
" But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music. "
Music Industry
Only
Music
" Careers are like roller coasters. You go up, you go down, and you spin yourself around. "
Go
Yourself
Down
" Christmas albums are not something you do frequently. "
Something
Albums
Christmas
" Death is always a reality, and life is incredibly short. "
Death
Life
Reality
" Don't misunderstand good manners for passivity. "
Good
Good Manners
Manners
" Eventually, the bad boy image affects fans' willingness to show up. "
Image
Show
Bad
" 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. "
You
Beauty
Feel
" Everybody has their demons; everyone has their challenges. "
Challenges
Everyone
Everybody
" Everybody has their ups and downs, and that's what makes you tougher. "
Tougher
Ups And Downs
Ups
" 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. "
Good
Love
Place
" 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. "
Rock
Always
Better
" Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me. "
Drummer
End
Me
" Getting to make the music, and having a good time doing it, is the most important thing to us. "
Good
Music
Time
" Hanson is not the pop band that a lot of people think we are. I think we're a lot more rooted in a lot of music history... we're songwriters, we're singers, we're players first. We're not entertainers, we're not celebrities, and frankly, we don't really want to be. "
Think
History
Band
" Hanson plays music that is very much a part of everything. "
Very
Part
Music
" Hanson will be associated with 'MMMBop' and long blonde hair in the same way the Beatles are associated with mop tops and suits. "
Suits
Way
Blonde
" I am continually pleasantly surprised by how many people are showing up at shows and are younger than our first record. "
Showing Up
First
People
" I don't get sick of 'MMMBop' in any way shape or form, and I don't know why I would. "
Sick
Get
Know
" I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years. "
Over
Years
Because
" I feel like, in some level, in our biggest moments of success we were always the underdog. "
Always
Underdog
Success
" If our kids want to do music, they are going to have to have a hard row to hoe just like any other band under the sun, and they're going to have to want it more than anyone else. "
Want
Sun
Music
" 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.' "
Time
Know
People
" I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s. "
Joke
Dissimilar
Band
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