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" A lot of potential scenarios create challenges. It's all about how you grew up, values instilled in you. "

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" Eventually, the bad boy image affects fans' willingness to show up. "

" But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music. "

" I am continually pleasantly surprised by how many people are showing up at shows and are younger than our first record. "

" There's no problem with fans and bands. There's a problem with the economics of the outside disruption of the industry. "

" In a phrase: I always hope it keeps getting better. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We have a good time and try not to kill each other. "

" 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. "

" One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations. "

" 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. "

" Hanson plays music that is very much a part of everything. "

" 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. "

" We're Midwestern guys who grew up listening to soul music. "

" '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. "

" It's really crazy to be 36 years old and to have been doing something for 25 years. "

" 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. "

" People my age don't always know where their music comes from. "

" I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years. "

" Oklahoma is very entrepreneurial. "

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" We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension. "

" 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.' "

" I'm a proud family man. "

" What's really important is that all we ever were was a band. And all we ever wanted to be was a band. "

" 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.' "

" 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 can do things that are very, very simple to us that can have a huge impact on others. "