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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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" '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. "

" We've always believed in our music. "

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" We've done enough - and made enough mistakes - to pretty well know how to guide our careers ourselves. "

" I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make. "

" I just want to write a great lyric and write a great song, and everything else is icing on the cake. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" There's something extraordinary about selling millions and millions of albums. "

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

" I think Hugh Laurie is awesome. You just want to loathe that guy in 'House' because he is not a friendly person, but somehow or another, he is profoundly charming. "

" There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio. "

" 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. "

" We've sold over 100,000 records so far, and we're an independent label. "

" Word of mouth is way more important than millions of dollars spent marketing. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

" There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5. "

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

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

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

" Christmas albums are not something you do frequently. "

" We've always been proud of what we've done. "

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