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" Careers are like roller coasters. You go up, you go down, and you spin yourself around. "

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" 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. "

" Hanson will be associated with 'MMMBop' and long blonde hair in the same way the Beatles are associated with mop tops and suits. "

" Ultimately, our goal was to be a band and be recognized for our songs and making records. And I think that has been the case. "

" We said from the very beginning that we're in this for the long haul. "

" Everybody has their demons; everyone has their challenges. "

" There needs to be leadership in the heartland of America. "

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

" Being an entrepreneur means being a creative businessperson. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery. "

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" Our songs all carry the same way. "

" 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. "

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

" Oklahoma is very entrepreneurial. "

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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. "

" 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've got angels watching out for me. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 pushed our first record, 'Boomerang,' to different labels, but it was hard for them to see though the 'white guys singing R&B' thing. "

" 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.' "

" No matter what, I will always hope for that day when I look around and can say, 'Oh yeah, I wrote a song that touched me emotionally the way that a song like 'She's Got A Way,' by Billy Joel did.' "

" Getting to make the music, and having a good time doing it, is the most important thing to us. "

" 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. "

" I was totally offended when people said we were like *Nsync. I've got nothing against them. I know those guys. But comparing us was lame. It was apples and oranges. "

" Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame. "